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BALL
STATE
Women in Leadership
A MAGAZINE OF MILLER COLLEGE
&
EXECUTIVES
ENTREPRENEURS
FALL 2009
VIEWPOINT
It has been both an honor and a privilege to
step into the position of dean of the highly
regarded Miller College of Business. With
your support, I look forward to raising our
pro?le even higher.
One of the key strengths of Miller College is
our alumni who represent us in every state
and around the world. Since June, I have
had the pleasure of meeting several of you,
and I very much appreciate the time you
have taken to share with me your pride,
your memories about your Ball State days,
and your hopes for the future of Miller
College. I plan to meet many more of you
in the coming months and invite you to
drop by my of?ce whenever
you are on campus.
Behind the success of
every great university are
engaged alumni. We are
very fortunate that this is
what we have here in you.
I have been impressed by
the enthusiastic support you
have shown for our various
fundraising projects and
the creation of scholarships
that help us continue to
attract extraordinary students
and provide them with a
high-quality education.
Because of your generosity,
you have opened doors and
enhanced opportunities
for a new generation of
Ball State students.
We are also thankful for the
other ways alumni have been
actively engaged—arranging
student internships at their
places of employment,
assisting with immersive
learning opportunities,
hiring recent graduates, participating
in our Dialogue Days, and serving on
advisory boards.
As you go through this issue of Ball State
Business, you will read stories about
individuals, programs, and accomplishments
we can all be proud of and celebrate. Meet
some of our remarkable women executives
and entrepreneurs (page 7). See how our
students, led by one of our faculty members,
are ?ghting childhood obesity along with
Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St.
Vincent and Marsh, among other partners
(page 18).
We want you to help us improve future
issues of our magazine. To ensure that it
meets your needs, we are conducting a
survey athttp://business.iweb.bsu.edu/
magazine_survey.html. It will take only
a few minutes to complete. Thank you.
We always want to hear from you. Share
with us your accomplishments and current
information. Contact us at 765-285-8192
or [email protected].
I cannot thank you enough for your support.
I do want you to know that your support
makes Miller College an exceptional place
whose graduates are second to none.
Sincerely,
Rajib Sanyal
Dean
A Season of Transformations
Contact us at
www.bsu.edu/business/contactus
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Dean:
Rajib Sanyal
Associate Dean, Instruction:
Rod Davis
Associate Dean,
Research and Outreach:
Ray Montagno
Director of External Relations:
Tammy Estep
Miller College of Business
Phone: 765-285-8192
Fax: 765-285-5117
E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: www.bsu.edu/business
Photo Credits:
Michael Hickey and
Don Rogers/Ball State
University Photo Services
On the Cover:
Nicole Vauter, a ?nance and
economics major, looks forward
to representing students on the
Board of Trustees—and a career
of helping people prepare for
their future.
Alumni Honors 4
Ten accomplished business leaders are honored during the
Miller College of Business Alumni Awards Dinner.
COVER STORY
Executives & Entrepreneurs 7
Meet three alumnae and one student who are carving a path
with their innovative leadership skills.
• Nicole Vauter: visionary student, leader on campus
• Renae Conley: CEO of two utility companies helps
revitalize communities in the wake of hurricanes
• Karen Mangia: connects young women with high-tech
industry opportunities
• Suzette Brown Miller: advocate for increasing student
achievement through teacher development
Touchdown for Children’s Health 18
Project 18, a campaign to ?ght childhood obesity, kicks off.
Miller College News 2
Faculty Awards, Updates 6
Scholarship Award Winners, Donors 14
Connections 16
FEATURES
DEPARTMENTS
FALL 2009
BUSINESS
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STATE
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New Prague Center in 2010, Page 2
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Entrepreneurship Ranked as 10th in Nation
U.S. News & World Report is touting the Miller College of Business
undergraduate program in entrepreneurship as 10th best in the nation.
The program features a ?nal pass-or-fail class that requires seniors
to put their degrees on the line when their business plans are analyzed
by a group of top business leaders just days before graduation.
The program has been consistently ranked in the top 10 by
U.S. News & World Report since 1999.
New Major in Sales Added
Miller College will offer a new major in sales in fall 2010.
Ball State is only one of a handful of institutions nationally—
and the only one in Indiana—to have such a major.
New Program in Information Systems
Security Management
This fall, Miller College launched a new program: the information
systems security management graduate certi?cate. The 15-hour
program is available through a combination of online and traditional
classes offered in the Greater Indianapolis area.
BRIEFS
MILLER COLLEGE NEWS
Prague, Czech Republic
Miller College to Launch Prague Center
The Miller College of Business is partnering with the university’s Rinker Center for International Programs to launch a new academic center in Prague
in the Czech Republic, starting in fall 2010.
Along the lines of our highly successful centers in Australia and London, the Prague Center will offer courses, study abroad, and immersive learning
opportunities to Ball State students in the fall semesters. Prague is symbolic of the dynamic changes taking place in Eastern Europe and, given its
central location, the center provides Ball State students an excellent option to broaden their global learning.
Courses, housing, transportation, and weekly cultural excursions are part of the inclusive fees at the semester-long Prague Center. Doug Naffziger,
associate professor of management, will serve as the resident director of the center for the ?rst semester. To learn more about this exciting initiative
and how you can support students going to Prague, contact Angie Cravens, coordinator of experiential and immersion learning programs, at
[email protected] or 765-285-2133 or go to www.bsu.edu/business/abroad.
We Need Your Feedback!
The Miller College of Business is conducting a survey to see how we
can better serve our alumni and friends. You can complete this survey
online athttp://business.iweb.bsu.edu/magazine_survey.html.
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Business Plan Competition
Gets New Home, New Name
The Entrepreneurship Center’s Enterprise 8,
formerly the Nascent 500 Business Plan
Competition, will be relocating to Worthen
Arena in the spring. The competition will
tie in with Hoosiers’ love for basketball.
The business plan competition celebrates
undergraduate entrepreneurship education
and Indiana’s business and historic heritage.
This will be the 14th business plan
competition hosted by Ball State.
Each year, semi?nalist teams are selected
based on submitted business plans and
are invited to Indiana for the competition.
The top team will present its plans
for a chance to win $15,000.
Insurance Program,
Students Recognized
Ball State’s insurance program achieved a
distinction by having the highest number of
students qualifying as university associate
certi?ed risk managers (UACRMs) in the
spring 2009 semester. The program ranks
third in the nation for total UACRMs.
The designation is an early certi?cation
program designed by the National Alliance for
Insurance Education & Research as a way to
help students gain a competitive edge, stronger
professional credibility, and to introduce them
to the internationally recognized certi?ed risk
manager professional designation.
The program was also listed as notable in the
September 2009 issue of Risk Management
magazine. The magazine stated: “Ball State’s
Center for Actuarial Science, Insurance, and
Risk Management plays an integral role
in supporting the program’s students and
faculty. The school offers undergraduate and
graduate degrees and boasts the most actuarial
credentialed full-time tenured faculty in the
country. This school’s program relies heavily
on real-world experience faculty, and students
recently completed a project on premium
taxation of insurers for the Indiana Economic
Development Council.”
Miller Scholar Program Completes Year One
Created by the bequest of Wally Miller, the Miller Scholars program completed its
?rst year. The program, which is designed to bring top high schools students to the
college, provides complete tuition remission, allowance for international study, a laptop
computer, specialized courses, and supplemental extracurricular programming.
This fall, the second group of Miller Scholars arrived on campus. They are:
SHRM Student Chapter
Earns Merit Award
The SHRM Student Chapter earned a Merit
Award from the Society for Human Resource
Management for the academic year 2008-2009.
The award recognizes professionalism of
chapter operations, professional development
of student members through mentorship
programs, attending conferences and guest
speaker presentations, and service to the
community. The chapter previously won a
Merit Award in 2007. About 20 Ball State
students are involved in SHRM.
TOP BUSINESS STUDENTS
INTRODUCING THIS YEAR’S
Miller Scholars Cailee Morris and Joseph Fazio
study in the Miller College lounge.
Two students in the program were awarded
Presidential Scholarships provided by the
American Institute of Chartered Property
Casualty Underwriters (CPCU). This scholarship
provides all materials and exam fees to pursue
the CPCU designation.
The recipients are Ball State seniors Kristen
Hanson and Bradley Robinson. Hanson is
majoring in risk management and insurance.
Robinson is pursuing a double major in risk
management and insurance and business
administration.
Chloe Barnes
Kevin Bergen
Laura Chappell
Joseph Fazio
Miranda King
MaryBeth Kowalinski
Rachel Kucan
Cailee Morris
Jessica Poeppelman
Morgan Walker
Christopher Wilkey
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ALUMNI AWARDS
Ten talented and dedicated alumni and friends were honored October 30 during the sixth annual
Alumni Awards Dinner. These men and women were recognized and celebrated for their successes.
Recognizing Outstanding
Alumni and Friends
HALL OF FAME
JOSEPH B. BLACK JR.
Dean and professor
emeritus, Ball State
University
Education: AA, Kemper
Military School; BS
1947, MBA 1956, and
DBA 1965
Indiana University
Current Position: Dean emeritus and
professor emeritus of ?nance at Ball State
Previous Employment: Teaching and
administrative positions at Indiana University,
Miami University, Wright State University
(dean), Kemper Military School (president),
and Ball State University (dean and acting
vice president of university relations)
Since 1947, he has retained an association
with his family’s business, the Black Lumber
Companies of Southern Indiana, recently
serving as a director and chairman of the
executive committee.
He proudly served in the infantry in World War II
and saw action in the Korean War as an artillery
of?cer. He continued to serve in the Army
Reserves and retired in 1973 as a colonel
in the Missouri National Guard.
DISTINGUISHED PARTNER AWARD
GEORGE E. BRANAM
Ball State
Entrepreneurship
Advisory Board,
Medical Advisory
Committee member for
the Human Performance
Laboratory
Current Position:
Laboratory director for
Pathologists Associated Medical Laboratories;
president of East Central Indiana Pathologists
Previous Employment: United States Air
Force major (1957 to 1966)
Education: BA chemistry and physiology,
Indiana University, Bloomington; MD, Indiana
University, Indianapolis, 1957; specialty
certi?cate in anatomic and clinical pathology,
Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco,
California, 1962; subspecialty certi?cate in
hematopathology, Ball Memorial Hospital,
Muncie, Indiana, 1971
Thoughts on Ball State: “Stories about my
participation in the Human Performance Lab
are numerous, but my favorite one involves the
testing of the then-world record holder of the
fastest marathon. It was in the heat of the
summer, and he warmed up, jumped on the
treadmill, and proceeded to run about a 4:15
mile. All of a sudden, the treadmill came to a
screeching halt because the fuses were burnt
out. It was so hot other people in the building
also had air-conditioning going, so it was too
much for the building.
So that Friday evening
everyone, including our
athlete, had a nice
dinner, capped with
a number of beers.”
AWARDS OF DISTINCTION
DONALD D.
DUMOULIN II
BS marketing, 1982,
Ball State University
Miller College of
Business Executive
Advisory Board chair
Current Position: Chief
executive of?cer,
King Systems
Previous Employment: President, Empi
Recovery Sciences through October 2008;
senior vice president of Roche Diagnostics
through December 2006; SmithKline Beecham
through December 1996; Procter and Gamble
through June 1992.
Thoughts on Ball State: “Ball State is the
source of most of my deepest friendships
through Sigma Chi fraternity and gave my
family the joy of seeing our son graduate from
the Miller College in 2008. The university has
given me pride of seeing the university grow
into a distinguished center for higher education
and the chance to work with outstanding Ball
State graduates in every job I have ever held.”
DAVID MCDANIEL
BS accounting and
?nance, 1981,
Ball State University
Accounting Advisory
Council, Ball State
Bold: Investing in
the Future capital
campaign, Indianapolis
subcommittee
Current Position: Partner of Ent & Imler CPA Group
Previous Employment: Staff accountant for
Kimmerling, Myers & Company (1981 to 1984)
Af?liations: American Institute of Certi?ed
Public Accountants; Indiana CPA Society;
Indiana CPA Society-Tax Resource Action
Committee (Indiana Legislature Liaison)
Thoughts on Ball State: “Ball State prepared
me to think, plan, and problem solve. I learned
skills on how to ?nd the right answer through
how to research problems and solutions—
not just trying to remember all the rules.”
Rod Davis, associate
dean for instruction,
(center) visits with alumni
Jackie and Mike Johnston
during the 2008 Alumni
Awards Dinner.
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AWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT
SHELLEY A. HUG
MEADOR
BS accounting, 1993,
Ball State Accounting
Advisory Council
Current Position:
Partner at KPMG LLP
Previous Employment:
Senior tax manager
Redcats USA (2003
to 2006); corporate tax director at Deloitte &
Touche LLP (1993 to 2003)
Af?liations: Member of the American Institute
of Certi?ed Public Accountants and Indiana
CPA Society; the Children’s Museum of
Indianapolis Fund Council member
Thoughts on Ball State: “It was great to have
professors teach the courses all through my
400 level classes and to get to know them.
Also, the class sizes allowed me to get to know
my peers better as well. This has allowed
me to stay involved with recruiting for over
15 years, present to various business classes
and organizations such as Beta Alpha Psi/
Accounting Club, and my involvement in the
Ball State Accounting Advisory Council.”
TAMARA B. SAMPLE
MCKINNEY
BS ?nance, summa cum
laude, 1986
Current Position: CEO
and cofounder of The
Constant Group Inc.
Previous Employment:
Chief of strategy, business
operations, and analysis for LiveText Inc. (2000
to 2005); Bain & Company (1997 to 2000);
and various prior management and analyst
positions at NCR Corp. in the Of?ce of the U.S.
CFO, Corporate Treasury, Worldwide Logistics,
U.S. Controller’s Division, and U.S. Customer
Services (Field Engineering) Division
Af?liations: Association for Computing
Machinery Midwest Business Brokers &
Intermediaries; International Business Brokers
Association; National Association of Women
Business Owners; Turnaround Management
Association Midwest-U.S. and China
Association; Beta Gamma Sigma
Additional Education: MBA, Harvard
University, 1997
Thoughts on Ball State: “The most signi?cant
aspect of my Ball State experience was having
the latitude to blend curricular and cocurricular
activities ?exibly in a way that made sense for
me and that was both applied and pragmatic.
This approach provided a well-rounded
foundational learning experience that
served me well.”
BILL FRENCH
BS business
administration, 1981,
Miller College of
Business Executive
Advisory Board
Current Position: Senior
vice president at Colliers
Turley Martin Tucker
Previous Employment:
F.C. Tucker Company Commercial Real Estate
Services (1984 to 1998)
Af?liations: Colliers Turley Martin Tucker Board
of Directors; International Council of Shopping
Centers past cochair; Colliers International
Retail Steering Committee; past president of
Hamilton Southeastern Schools Foundation;
former vice president of Flanner House Inc.
Thoughts of Ball State: “My initial reason
for coming to Ball State was to become an
architect, but it didn’t work out for me.
Then I enrolled in the college of business.
If I was not going to design buildings,
I was going to sell them.”
ROB TYLER
BS ?nance, 1995,
Ball State Finance
Advisory Board
charter member
Current Position:
Financial advisor and
owner of Tyler Wealth
Management; adjunct
instructor for the
Department of Finance and Insurance,
Ball State University
Previous Employment: Financial advisor
for Wealth Strategies Inc. (1995 to 2001)
Af?liations: Retirement Planning at Ball State
Retirement Wellness Day presenter; Ball State
Christian Student Foundation board member
Thoughts on Ball State: “The most signi?cant
aspect of my Ball State experience was my
involvement in the business fraternity Delta
Sigma Pi. I was pledge class president,
which taught me Robert’s Rules of Order,
how to run meetings, organize projects,
and lead people. A local ?nancial planner,
David Stocker, spoke at a professional
speaker night and dinner afterward turned
into an internship, a full-time job, and seven
years of employment being mentored by
an excellent advisor. My favorite memories
also include lunch after class at the Flying
Tomato, $3.99 Papa John’s Pizza, attending
men’s basketball games at the new Worthen
Arena, and playing intramural sports.”
MATTHEW J. MOMPER
BS economics and
management, 1983,
Ball State University
Board of Trustees,
Ball State University
Foundation Board of
Directors, Northeast
Indiana Ball State
Alumni Chapter
Current Position: President of Momper
Insulation, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Additional Education: MBA Drake University, 1984
Af?liations: Indiana Builders Association Codes
Committee; Fort Wayne Zoological Society
Board of Directors
Thoughts on Ball State: “My entire Ball State
experience from the classroom, the fraternity,
working on the homecoming committee, and
involvement in other campus organizations has
prepared me extremely well for the real world.
That I am able to continue to serve on Ball State
boards has been most gratifying, ful?lling, and
a learning experience.”
JIM L. STANLEY
BS accounting, 1977,
and associate degree
economics, 1977
Current Position:
President of Duke
Energy Indiana
Previous Employment:
Vice president for ?eld
operations, Midwest
(2006); vice president for T&D Construction
and Maintenance (1998 to 2003); vice
president for T&D Projects (1996 to 1998);
all positions were with Public Service Indiana,
PSI Energy, Cinergy, which are all predecessor
companies to Duke Energy.
Af?liations: Indiana Legal Foundation Board
of Directors; Indiana Utility Shareholders
Association Board of Directors; YMCA of Greater
Indianapolis Board of Directors; Indiana Chamber
of Commerce Board of Directors; United Way
of Central Indiana Board of Directors; Special
Olympics Indiana Board of Directors
Thoughts on Ball State: “Like most graduates
I look back on my campus experience as a time
of growing accountability and exposure to new
things or, putting it in 1977 terms, I was on
my own and had to take care of myself for the
?rst time! I remember fondly that my senior
year at Ball State was the start of my lifetime
partnership with my wife. In fact, we like to say
that we were married and 36 hours later began
honeymooning on campus at the Scheidler
apartment complex. I would be remiss if I did
not mention that I bene?tted from and have
great memories of participating in collegiate
athletics by earning three letters in the
Cardinal baseball program.”
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Miller College of
Business 2009
Faculty Award
Recipients
OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD
Stan Keil
Associate Professor,
Economics
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AWARD
Shaheen Borna
Professor,
Marketing
OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARD
Stephen Avila
Associate Professor,
Insurance
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
Rod Davis
Associate Dean
for Instruction
FACULTY UPDATES
University
Recognizes Miller
College Faculty
Ball State University
honored Jennifer Bott,
associate professor of
management, as the
2008-09 Outstanding
Junior Faculty Member
for being an exemplary
teacher and for her
initiatives with immersive
learning projects.
Sushil Sharma,
professor and chair
for the Department of
Information Systems and
Operations Management,
was recognized with the
2008-09 Outstanding
Faculty Award for his
proli?c scholarly output,
winner of several grants,
and high quality teaching. He is a leader in
cyber security research.
Avila Earns Top
Honors for Teaching
The director of Ball State University’s nationally
recognized professional selling program has
been honored as one of the nation’s top
educators.
Ramon Avila, director of
Ball State’s H.H. Gregg
Center for Professional
Selling and the George
and Frances Ball
distinguished professor
of marketing, has been
named a distinguished
sales educator by the
University Sales Center
Alliance. The award honors sales educators for
their consistent, long-term, and outstanding
contributions to the quality and advancement
of sales and sales management education at
the college and university level.
Documentary
Created for Aspiring
Entrepreneurs
An engaging, entertaining, and inspiring
documentary ?lm, Increasing the Odds:
Starting a Business, has been designed
by Cecil Bohanon, professor of economics,
and a team of students to help the aspiring
entrepreneur avoid crucial mistakes in
developing a business. The ?lm emphasizes
simple points that are essential to starting
a successful business.
This Virginia Ball Center
documentary pro?les
six businesses that use
time-tested and de?nitive
methods to increase their
odds. The companies
examined include Big
Sky Brewing of Missoula,
Montana; Air Robotics
LLC of Muncie, Indiana;
Blue Bottle Coffee Shop of Muncie, Indiana;
Vera Bradley Designs of Fort Wayne, Indiana;
Ball Corporation of Broom?eld, Colorado; and
Anheuser-Busch of St. Louis, Missouri.
Get a sneak peak of the documentary, an
immersive learning project from the Virginia
B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, Ball State
University, and the Innovation Connector
at www.bsu.edu/business/increasingodds.
The full ?lm will be released this fall.
New faculty and staff
Miller College of Business welcomes our new
faculty and staff for the 2009-2010 year:
• Rui “Ray” Chen, assistant professor
of information systems and operations
management
• Adlai Chester, instructor of accounting
• Maoyong Fan, assistant professor
of economics
• Susan P. Mantel, associate professor
of marketing
• Pankaj C. Patel, assistant professor
of management
• Lori Pence, secretary to the dean
• Michael D. Plante, assistant professor
of economics.
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Women in Leadership
omen are making strides in business leadership. Ball State University
continues to mold women leaders who are challenging how we use technology and
how we see the world around us, from the wake of hurricanes to inside classrooms.
In 2007, about 53 percent of the total professional positions in the private sector were
women, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Women made
up 28 percent of the total executive and senior level of?cial and managerial positions
and 39 percent of the total ?rst and midlevel of?cial and managerial positions.
These four stories exemplify advances women are making.
Karen Mangia (left) talks with fellow professionals during a video conference
at Cisco Systems. Mangia is the senior manager for the Partner Experience
team at Cisco in Carmel, Indiana.
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Taking Charge
It’s no secret, one encounter changed Nicole Vauter’s life.
Vauter met with representatives from Merrill Lynch and Raymond
James during her freshman year at Ball State to learn more about
their professions. One of the professionals was a certi?ed ?nancial
planner, taking in clients and speaking with them one-on-one while
managing their portfolios.
“He helped them with their ?nancial lives, their retirement planning, and
how to pay for education. With that one meeting, I had found what I
wanted to do with my life,” says Vauter.
Now for Vauter, it’s all about the
networking. Whether she does it in
person, through social networks, over
the phone, or through e-mails, she
gets involved so she can make
a difference.
“I want to become a business leader, an entrepreneur, a respected
colleague, an admired boss, a creative visionary, an enthusiastic role
model, a prestigious CEO, an esteemed educator, and a successful
woman,” Vauter says. “My ultimate goal is to create and own a
?nancial advising ?rm. To achieve this, I am willing and determined
to continue striving for excellence in my academic studies.”
Vauter of Hebron, Indiana, is the student representative to the Ball
State University Board of Trustees, the highest governing body of
the institution. A junior majoring in ?nance and economics, Vauter
stepped into her two-year position in the summer of 2009.
“I am really looking forward to going to as many events as
possible to network with students.” She was selected to be a
student trustee after an extensive application and interview
process that culminated in an appointment by Indiana
Governor Mitch Daniels.
“I’m kind of a nerd,” Vauter laughs. “I like ?nances. I have a color-coded planner. I love to be
involved. I have to be organized to do all these different things. This is who I am and what I love.”
While serving as a trustee, Vauter anticipates continuing on with many of her other extracurricular
activities, including as the Miller College Undergraduate Fellow.
“Nicole was our overwhelming choice for the Undergraduate Fellow position for 2009-10,” says
Gayle Hartleroad, director of student services for Miller College. “It is clear from the moment you meet
Nicole that she is a genuine, sincere, and caring person. She has an enthusiastic personality, which
makes her a wonderful ?t to regularly meet with prospective families and represent Miller College.”
Vauter was drawn to Ball State because of its well-regarded architecture program.
“I had anticipated doing business minors. After my ?rst year of classes at Miller College, I loved
it and made that my focus.”
She spent this summer contacting companies searching for a ?nancial planning-related internship
for next year. “It’s very competitive. I have many dreams and aspirations waiting to be ful?lled.
They direct my educational decisions,” she says. “Through my academic career, I have committed
myself to continuous learning and practice so that I will be well-prepared to take on any challenge
in my life.”
FEATURE
In Her Spare Time
Nicole Vauter has immersed herself in as
many activities as possible during her time
at Ball State. While serving as a trustee
and undergraduate fellow, she is also a
member of the Student Alumni Relations
Team, the Advanced Professionalism
Certi?cate Program, and Alpha Kappa
Psi business fraternity. She is looking into
becoming involved in a Building Better
Communities Fellows project and studying
abroad next summer on the one of the two-
week ?eld studies Miller College offers.
In her spare time, she loves to play
cornhole, golf, and bowl. She is also
a photographer.
Nicole Vauter, student representative to the
Ball State University Board of Trustees, (left)
studies with friends outside the Museum of Art.
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Taking Charge
Louisiana utilities are well-
acquainted with hurricanes and
the damage and destruction they
leave in their wake
But even the seasoned veterans at Entergy
Louisiana LLC and Entergy Gulf States
Louisiana LLC were stunned by the devastation
from hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
The mammoth storms ?ooded New Orleans
and southeast Louisiana, delivering tragedy
and misery to many of the utilities’ 1 million
customers.
“Our employees were amazing in their
response to the disaster,” says Renae Conley,
president and chief executive of?cer of
Entergy’s two utility companies. “Many of our
linemen, as well as other Entergy employees
responding to the storm, had lost their homes.
Still, they worked around the clock, many
performing heroic acts as they labored to
restore power to the region. The nature and
character of these employees were revealed as
they worked for others while they themselves
had lost everything.”
Conley, BS ’80 and MBA ’82, is responsible for
the companies’ electric distribution systems,
customer service, regulatory and government
affairs and economic development programs, as
well as the companies’ ?nancial performance.
After the storm, Conley worked with regulators
to put in place larger storm reserves and
innovative ?nancing alternatives to be prepared
for the next hurricane. So three years later,
when Gustav and Ike struck, leaving more
than 800,000 Entergy customers in Louisiana
without power, Conley’s companies were ready.
In Her Spare Time
Renae Conley has numerous interests
including running, reading, and traveling.
She serves on several boards related to
improving the life, economy, educational
opportunities and the future of Louisiana,
a state and people she has come to love
and to call home.
“Getting power restored as soon as possible
after disasters of these proportions is the key
to the economic recovery and the return of a
normal life for communities,” says Conley, a
Baton Rouge resident. “Our employees—as
well as thousands of workers from around the
country who came to help us—restored power
in record time.”
Renae Conley (left) appears on Louisiana Public
Broadcasting’s Louisiana: The State We’re In to
give an update on the restoration process following
Hurricane Gustav in September 2008. Conley is
the president and chief executive of?cer of two
utility companies in Louisiana.
Ball State President Jo Ann M. Gora
visits with Renae Conley during the
Alumni Awards Dinner. Conley was an
Award of Distinction recipient in 2007.
Steering
Through
the Storms
“The nature and character of these employees
were revealed as they worked for others while
they themselves had lost everything.”
— Renae Conley
President and chief executive of?cer of
Entergy Louisiana LLC & Entergy Gulf
States Louisiana LLC
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Conley credits three Ball State professors
with giving her the foundation to lead the
companies: Krishna Mantripragada, ?nance
professor; Paul Parkison, retired chairman
and accounting professor; and James Hoban,
retired ?nance professor.
“They provided excellent real-life experiences
in the classroom, allowing us to understand
how to apply what we were learning to the
real-world situations we would encounter. And
they were truly interested in my success.” She
worked for Hoban as a graduate assistant and
credits his guidance in helping her re?ne and
understand her business interests.
When Conley graduated in 1980, the job
market was not promising. She continued at
Ball State and obtained a master of business
administration (MBA). She began working for a
utility company in the internal audit department
and spent the next half of her career in a
variety of accounting and ?nance positions
before moving into line responsibilities.
Conley joined Entergy in 1999 and was
named to her current position in 2000.
Conley has always been business-minded
and credits her father for helping her choose
accounting as a major. His advice was to seek
an accounting degree to get a strong knowledge
base of how businesses worked and made
money. “He said I could go any direction from
there,” Conley says.
And she has. Her companies have been
consistently recognized for their restoration
abilities after major storms. Entergy is the
only company to be honored every year
since the Edison Electric Institute Emergency
Response Awards were ?rst presented in
1998. It has have been presented with
four awards for its exemplary response
capabilities and nine awards for helping
other utilities repair their systems.
Conley continues to bring back her real-world
experiences to Ball State through her membership
on the Dean’s Executive Advisory Board.
“Interfacing with the students and seeing how
bright, creative, and resourceful they are is
rewarding. Today’s generation of kids is so
impressive and is going to make this world
a better place. I am convinced of that.”
Karen Mangia is reaching out to the next generation of information
technology (IT) professionals.
“What most attracted me to the IT ?eld was the pace—fast, dynamic, innovative,” says Mangia,
BS ’97, MS ’98, the senior manager for the Partner Experience team at Cisco Systems’ of?ce in
Carmel, Indiana. “Technology advances daily, and we are increasingly able to solve problems
using solutions and approaches that weren’t available in the past.”
Mangia is sharing her enthusiasm for technology with today’s female high school students. In
2006, she founded INPursuit to connect high school girls with mentors in the high-tech industry.
About 250 women have volunteered to engage in e-relationships with girls at two high schools
in Greater Indianapolis.
“It’s a great experience to give young women the chance to expand their view of options in life,”
she says. “Mentors make a difference in what you believe is possible.”
INPursuit is one example of Mangia’s strong support of networking. In addition to her Ball State
education, she says, her Ball State relationships have helped her career.
“Ball State prepared me well for my professional career and life in general,” says Mangia, an
Honors College alumna. “In addition to learning critical thinking and problem-solving skills,
I learned the importance of networking. My ?rst and most recent jobs resulted from Ball State-
based relationships.”
Human Connections
in a High Tech World
Renae Conley continued
In Her Spare Time
Karen Mangia has eclectic interests,
including cooking with local ingredients.
She earned an associate degree in
hospitality administration and culinary arts
from Ivy Tech just for fun!
A native of South Bend and resident of
Carmel, Indiana, Mangia also enjoys
traveling, reading, singing, and playing the
piano. She is a very active volunteer for the
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Karen Mangia in front of Bene?cence
on her graduation day.
“In addition to learning critical thinking and problem-solving
skills, I learned the importance of networking. My ?rst and
most recent jobs resulted from Ball State-based relationships.”
— Karen Mangia
Senior manager for the Partner Experience,
Cisco Systems, Carmel, Indiana
Mangia earned her bachelor’s degree in international
business and telecommunications as well as her
master’s degree in information and communication
sciences.
Mangia’s accomplishments have brought her
many awards, including being named to the 2008
Indiana Business Journal Top 40 Under 40 list
and a 2007 Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD)
Award from the Ball State Alumni Association.
Mangia says networking with a fellow Ball
State graduate Randy Pond,’77, (see Ball State
Business, Spring 2009) was key to her career
development. Mangia met with Pond, Cisco’s
executive vice president of operations, at his San
Jose, California, of?ce. Pond helped her connect
with people in the division where she wanted
to work.
“When I chose to look for opportunities outside of
sales management at Cisco, I called Randy,” she
says. “I knew he was a fellow Miller College alum and thought he might have some ideas. He not only took the call; he generously spent almost an hour
with me in person!”
Mangia’s relationship with Ball State has continued long after graduation. She is a member of the Miller College of Business Alumni Board and the
Information Systems and Operations Management Advisory Board as well as the Center for Information and Communication Sciences’ (CICS) Industry
Fellows Board. She visits the classroom as a guest lecturer and gets to meet with several of her former professors. “I stay in touch because I had a great
experience at Ball State, and I want to enable that for others.”
In Her Spare Time
Suzette Scheib Brown Miller is an active volunteer, having served as president
of the Big Sister Foundation, cochair of Training Inc., and president of the
Indianapolis chapter of Alpha Phi Alumnae, among others. She received the
Pauline Selby Award from Big Sisters of Central Indiana.
She enjoys gol?ng, ballroom dancing, playing bridge, and reading and lives
in Indianapolis.
Suzette Scheib Brown Miller advertises
her passion on her back bumper. Her
license plate says EDUC8.
Miller, ’72, president of Brown Associates in Indianapolis,
has melded a love for teaching with entrepreneurship.
She works with school districts to develop and implement
plans to improve student achievement scores and provide
professional development to teachers.
“The most rewarding aspect of my consulting work is that
I still enjoy working through the ever-changing challenges
in education,” she says. “The expectations of principals
and teachers, the student population, and the research on
best practices in the classroom have dramatically changed
the educational landscape in the last 20 years.”
Merging
Education with
Entrepreneurship
Suzette Scheib Brown Miller (right) taught in public schools
before becoming an education consultant creating workshops
and training leadership teams for her company, Brown Associates
in Indianapolis. Karen Mangia (above) connects high school
girls with mentors in the high-tech industry through the
Partner Experience at Cisco Systems, Carmel, Indiana.
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Carol Kettler, Title I manager for Fort Wayne Community Schools, has
worked closely with Miller. “Suzette is professional, knowledgeable, precise,
and accurate,” Kettler says. “She is a true advocate for increasing student
achievement through the school improvement process.”
Miller’s start in education came accidentally. When she enrolled at Ball State,
she intended to earn an associate degree but changed her mind. “I went to an
academic counselor, and he suggested I go into business education, since I had
already taken several business classes,” she says.
After teaching in public schools, followed by work in a leadership program at the
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Miller became an educational consultant.
With a business partner, she began designing workshops and training leadership
teams all over the country for the Modern Red Schoolhouse Institute. Her work
through the institute led her to open her own of?ce in Indianapolis.
Miller says Ball State prepared her well for her roles as both an educator and
a business professional, sometimes in ways she did not foresee. “I came to the
university with relatively no background knowledge in business. I was starting
from scratch, and the College of Business delivered courses that were broad in
range and speci?c in content, which I needed. At the time, it never occurred
to me that I would ever be developing a business plan, projecting budgets,
or paying taxes for my own business venture.”
At Ball State, Miller pledged with Alpha Phi sorority and took her ?rst
leadership role. At the time, she was dating a member of Sigma Chi,
and while a sophomore, she was chosen Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.
“While I was sweetheart, one of my responsibilities was to attend some of the
fraternity rush events,” she says. “David Letterman was one of the fraternity
brothers at the time, and he was usually the emcee at the rush events. He had
the ability to ?nd humor in nearly every situation. I thoroughly enjoyed watching
him work, even though sometimes as sweetheart, I was the object of his humor.”
Ball State is a big part of Miller’s life. She participates in the letter writing campaign to prospective
freshmen, Dialogue Days, and the Miller College Awards Dinner, and she served on the Miller
College of Business Alumni Board from 1996 until 2004—with two years as president. In 2005,
she was honored with an Award of Achievement.
“The most rewarding element of my involvement as an alumna with Ball State and Miller College
of Business is seeing the college and the university grow and having an opportunity to be a part
of that growth,” she says.
Suzette Scheib Brown Miller visits the Ball State
campus in the 1970s. She is standing in front of
Emens Auditorium. Miller is a 1972 graduate.
Suzette Miller continued
“I came to the university with relatively no background
knowledge in business. I was starting from scratch, and the
College of Business delivered courses that were broad in
range and speci?c in content, which I needed.”
— Suzette Scheib Brown Miller
President of Brown Associates,
Indianapolis
BALLSTATEBUSINESS 13
Above: Howard White, senior project manager/
technical engineer for AT&T, Monee, Illinois,
addresses a business class during Dialogue Days.
INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION.
When accomplished business leaders—such as corporate executives,
business professionals, and successful entrepreneurs—visit Ball State,
they enhance the Miller College of Business learning environment.
How you can give back
Ball State has more than 146,000
alumni who are making strides and
names for themselves as business
leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, health
care providers, scientists, designers,
artists, media professionals, and more.
You can give back to the Miller College
of Business. Give to the Dean’s Fund for
Excellence or to a speci?c program or
department that you’re most interested
in. Create a scholarship or endowment.
Help expand existing scholarship
funds. Partner with Miller College
on an immersive learning project.
For more information on how you can
help the Miller College of Business,
contact Beth Snyder, director of
development for Miller College of
Business, at 765-285-9098 or
[email protected].
www.bsu.edu/business
Dialogue Days
Dialogue Days, an initiative of the Miller College of Business Alumni Board, connects students
with successful alumni professionals to interact and share business experience and expertise.
The next Dialogue Days will be February 24-25, 2010. For more information contact Tammy
Estep, director of external relations, at [email protected] or 765-285-8311.
Executive in Residence
Students gain an unrivalled opportunity to interact with a successful business leader
and the chance to foster an intimate dialogue. The Executive in Residence program
allows seasoned leaders to speak in a number of classes and meet with students,
faculty, and local business groups.
Over the years, this program has brought to campus senior corporate executives, business
professionals, and successful entrepreneurs, from a variety of industries, large and small,
private and public.
In recent months, David Bego and Umit Taftali visited campus to speak with students.
Bego is president, owner, and CEO of Executive Management Services Inc. and the author
of The Devil at My Doorstep: Protecting Employee Rights, a book based on his employee
management experience. Taftali is a founding partner of Cesmig & Taftali, ’85, a private
equity investment partnership in London. In 2001, he joined Koc Holding in Istanbul,
Turkey, and founded the Suna Kirac (Koc) Family Of?ce, which he is managing.
Four executives in residence addressed our students during the 2008-2009 school year as
part of this Distinguished Speaker Series. Watch the interviews at www.bsu.edu/business
with Peter Campanella, ’67, former chief executive of?cer of World Kitchen; Carl George,
’71, CEO, Clifton Gunderson LLP; James Lintzenich, ’75, board of directors, Lumina
Foundation for Education; and Jeff Yapp, executive vice president for program
enterprises, MTV Networks’ Music and Logo Group.
David Bego (right),
president, owner,
and CEO of Executive
Management Services
Inc., pauses after
his Executive in
Residence talk with
students, to visit with
Ben Hancock, vice
president of university
advancement,
in October.
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SCHOLARSHIPS
Allardt Business Scholarship
Kenneth Barrett
Ball State University Indiana CPA
Society Scholarship
Jason Owens
Charles W. Battle Endowment
Fund Scholarship
Brandon Liechty
Autumn Sexton
Frank B. Bernard Scholarship
Nicole Vauter
Beta Gamma Sigma Scholarship
Anthony Dalesandro
Michael M. Bill Scholarship
by M-J Insurance Inc.
Kristen Hanson
BKD LLP Accounting Scholarship
in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Anthony Dalesandro
BKD LLP–Roger A. Bertram
Memorial Scholarship
Joseph Ealing
A.E. Boyce Scholarship
Erin Mulloy
Colonel William and Lucille Head Bright
Scholarship for Accounting
Sarah Dunham
Leslie Ferkinhoff
Erin Harbeson
Kimberly Shreves
Frank T. Bryan & William R. Bryan
Memorial Scholarship
Zachary Alexander
Anna Marie and Harold Bull Scholarship
Savannah Watson
Robert and Laura Bullock
Memorial Scholarship
Stephanie Wendel
G. Steven and Kelli Burrill Accounting
Scholarship in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Lucas Autry
Brandon Lucas
William A. and Carolyn A. Carter
Accounting Scholarship in honor
of Paul W. Parkison
Trake Carpenter
Kathryn Cohen
Kaleb Kelham
Adam Schaffer
Christopher Sindelar
Jacob Sowers
Central Indiana Chapter–CPCU Society
Scholarship in honor of Hugh McGowan
Joshua Spencer
C. Y. Cheng Award
Grif?n Corn
Spencer Schafer
Crowe Chizek and Company LLP
Outstanding Accounting Student Award
Joseph Kalule
William and Maudames Conner Scholarship
Tad Kilburn
Moonkee Kim
Nicole Vauter
Savannah Watson
CPCU Society Award
Kilea Gray
CTS Corporation Award
Meghan Polender
Duke Realty Corp. Freshman Merit
Matthew Jordan
Nicholas Pollastrini
Thomas Ertel/Arthur Anderson
Scholarship in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Allison Schweikert
Herschel and Adaline Eastman
Business Education Scholarship
Elizabeth Boyle
Herschel and Adaline Eastman
Scholarship in Distributive Education
Elizabeth Boyle
Abbey Johnson
Niel C. Ellerbrook Accounting
Scholarship in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Sarah Fox
Devin Scroggins
Ent and Imler Accounting Scholarship
in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Sara Sandifer
Dub and Nancy Fike Family Scholarship
Caroline Blue
John and Esther Findling
Class of 1933 Scholarship
Derek Wilson
First Merchants Bank Scholarship
Alisha Etzler
Thomas Masterson
Elsie H. Foreman Scholarship
Derek Wilson
John D. Gentis Scholarship
Zachary Enos
Carl George/Clifton Gunderson LLP
Accounting Scholarship in honor
of Paul W. Parkison
Tangkai Xie
N.G. Gilbert Business Scholarship
Joseph Ealing
Mearl and Lolita Guthrie Scholarship
Brandon Liechty
George E. Harris Memorial Scholarship
Scott Peterson
John P. and Lilly S. Harris Accounting
Scholarship in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Devin Scroggins
William R. Hole Accounting Scholarship
in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Chauncey Long
Holmes-McFadden Business Scholarships
Catherine Brake
Andrew Briles
Richard and Sandra Hutson College of
Business Scholarship
Joseph Macri
Independent Insurance Agents
of Central Indiana Inc. Scholarship
Alisha Etzler
Kristen Hanson
The Indiana Farmers Mutual
Insurance Scholarship
Steve South
Information Systems and
Technology Scholarship
Tyler Siefring
Rover Neill Jefferson Scholarship
Yaw Owusu-Akyaw
E. Virginia Johnson Business
Scholarship
Kara Gilbert
Megan Hughes
Jacob Sowers
Samantha Vail
Michael L. and Jacqueline J.
Johnston Family Scholarship
Jack Allgood
Cristina Curry
Zachary Enos
Rachael Hurd
Adam Page
Jessica Poeppelman
Tyler Sanders
Colleen Walton
Richard L. Kelly
Memorial Scholarship
Loretta Smith
Robert E. Kennett
Memorial Scholarship
Briana Yoder
Fred and Mildred Kitselman
Crapo Scholarship
Zachary Alexander
Stephen A. Knote
Memorial Scholarship
Tad Kilburn
Harold and Isabella Legg Memorial
Scholarship
Collin Hornbaker
Jim and Marybeth Lintzenich Accounting
Scholarship in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Sarah Fox
Joseph F. and Glenna L. Long
Accounting Scholarship
Thomas Masterson
Marketing Teacher Education Scholarship
Jonathon Maple
Scholarships Awarded for 2009-2010
“Being awarded this
scholarship is a tangible
result of my hard work
and serves as a great
motivator for future
performance.”
— Victor Morman
Mutual Federal Savings Bank
Charitable Foundation Inc.
Scholarship recipient
Bachelor’s degrees in ?nance
and piano performance, 2011
More than $316,000 in scholarships has been designated to bright and motivated Miller College of Business students for the 2009-2010 year.
We thank our alumni and friends for these generous gifts, which make the dream of a college education a reality for many students. Miller College
was able to provide $252,759 in business scholarships and $63,406 for Miller Scholars awards. These students will be recognized during the
annual Scholarships & Awards Brunch Award Program at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, December 12, in the Alumni Center.
BALLSTATEBUSINESS 15
Ermal W. Marsh Memorial Grant
Anthony Dalesandro
Thomas Masterson
Lawrence Ruiz
Autumn Sexton
Derek Wilson
Ermal W. Marsh Memorial Scholarship
Jake Budzielek
Terry Fields
Whitney Ruble
David Young
Estel V. and Mildred E. Marsh
Scholarship in Business Award
Joseph Fazio
Megan Hughes
Matthew Jordan
Cailee Morris
Terah Studer
Morgan Walker
Meek Memorial Business Scholarship
Jason Owens
Awards from the Estate of Wally Miller
Chloe Barnes
Kevin Bergen
Laura Chappell
Jeffrey Cline
Joseph Fazio
Hilary Fichter
Kelley Hux
Miranda King
MaryBeth Kowalinski
Rachel Kucan
Joseph Macri
Cailee Morris
Madison Moseman
Jessica Poeppelman
Kimberly Shreves
Nicholas Sizemore
Adam Smith
Morgan Walker
Christopher Wilkey
Marissa Wynn
Brooke Zollinger
Miller College of Business Alumni Award
Zachary Enos
Miller College of Business Award
Kelley Hux
Miller College of Business Merit
Endowment Scholarship
Carla Cotton
Joseph Fazio
Austin Hostetter
Megan Hughes
Matthew Jordan
Cailee Morris
Madison Moseman
Kyle O’Conner
Melanie Rapp
Adam Smith
Jamie Stone
Terah Studer
Colleen Walton
Grace Williams
Ronald A. Minichillo Entrepreneurship
Venture Development Fund
Graduation Award
Christopher Bendix
John Dahlgren
Max Kepler
Joel Luebcke
Dan McElroy
Jon Schwartz
Emily Stoll
Ashley Wiswell
Morrison-Galliher Award
Joshua Spencer
Mutual Federal Savings Bank Charitable
Foundation Inc. Scholarship
Wendy Carter
Victor Morman
Robert Henry and Clydia Alice Myers
Scholarship
Mohammad Abdel-Hay
NAIFA - East Central Indiana Fund Award
Alisha Etzler
Elliot and Estell Nelson and Family
Scholarship
Brandon Liechty
Ontario Corporation Business
Management Scholarship
Alexander Falevich
Steve H. Parker Accounting Scholarship
in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Tyler Siefring
Paul W. Parkison Accounting Scholarship
Erika Paul
Tyler Siefring
Stephanie Wendel
Jack Peckinpaugh Insurance Scholarship
Kristen Hanson
Pond Family Scholarship
Kathryn Cohen
Cristina Curry
Andrew Edwards
Ashley Green
Porter Family Foundation Business
Scholarship
Dustin Cressman
Luke Laskowski
Taylor Miller
Mr. and Mrs. D. Merideth Repp Scholarship
Caitlin Arthur
Josephine Saunders Scholarship
Savannah Watson
Ernestine R. Scott Scholarship
Shaun Wilson
Shultz Insurance Agency Scholarship
Kilea Gray
Anthony W. and Marla D. Smith/Ernst
and Young Accounting Scholarship in
honor of Paul W. Parkison
Trent Carnes
Gary Friend
Aaron Lindenschmidt
Anthony W. and Marla D. Smith
Merit Scholarship
Kevin Bergen
Skylar Chew
Grif?n Corn
Noelle Dubach
Andrew Edwards
Joseph Fazio
Ryan McDaniel
Jessica Poeppelman
Christopher Wilkey
Somerset CPAs P.C. Award
Kimberly Tiesch
Michael E. Stafford/Grange
Insurance Scholarship
Bradley Robinson
M.E. Studebaker Scholarship
Nicole Vauter
Mark Studebaker Undergraduate
Fellow Scholarship
Nicole Vauter
Charles V. Sursa Memorial Scholarship
Kenneth Barrett
George R. Terry Management Scholarship
Brandon Liechty
George R. Terry Scholarship
Jasmyn Burton
Michael K. Troyer Memorial Scholarship
Derek Wilson
Stanley L. Wadman Memorial
Scholarship Fund Award
Rebecca Lynd
James L. and Edward J. Wainscott
Accounting Scholarship
Lesley Ferkinhoff
Diana Rangel
Mark Wenclewicz Sr. Memorial Scholarship
Bradley Robinson
Edith and Carlos White Merit Scholarship
Steven Arlandson
Jordan Borders
Donald Friend
Kaleb Kelham
Ryan McDaniel
Nicholas Pollastrini
Kelly Sudhoff
Briana Yoder
Ken White/Ernst and Young Accounting
Scholarship in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Lilah Fisher
Thomas Masterson
Whitinger and Company LLC
Grant-In-Aid
Shelby Flynn
Krysta Hoover
Alexis Shonkwiler
Dane Wilson
The Numan A. Williams Insurance
Endowment Fund Award
Kilea Gray
Linda Wilson-Moser Memorial Scholarship
Grace Baker
Bethany Koester
Students socialize over brunch during the Scholarship & Awards Brunch Award
Program in 2008 for Miller College of Business scholarship recipients.
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1990-1999
Travis Chamberlain, BS accounting 1998, is
a member of the American Institute of Certi?ed
Public Accountants (AICPA) 12-person task
force formed to rewrite Practice Aid, Valuation
of Privately-Held-Company Equity Securities
Issued as Compensation. The AICPA is the
national, professional organization for all
certi?ed public accountants. Chamberlain is the
senior manager at Clifton Gunderson.
Richard Davisson, BS accounting 1998, is a
member of the American Institute of Certi?ed
Public Accountants (AICPA) 12-person task force
formed to rewrite Practice Aid, Valuation of
Privately-Held-Company Equity Securities
Issued as Compensation. The AICPA is the
national, professional organization for all
certi?ed public accountants. Davisson is
a partner at McGladrey & Pullen.
Robert Haecker, BS
management 1996, is
president of TRI Phase
Technologies, based in
Carmel, Indiana. TRI
Phase Technologies
is a high-end, custom
electronics company
known for innovative
design and installation.
Yun Kim, BS ?nance
1995, is the chief
?nancial of?cer of
King Systems based in
Noblesville, Indiana.
King Systems is a
custom manufacturer of
anesthesia and respiratory
care products.
Tricia Stanley, BS ?nance
1992 and MS health
science 2000, is the
executive director of the
Ball Memorial Hospital
Foundation Inc. in
Muncie, Indiana. The
BMH Foundation is a
resource to Ball Memorial
Hospital, enabling it to
expand with excellence its provision of patient
care, education, research, and community health.
1980-1989
David Heeter, BS ?nance
(?nancial institutions) and
management (personnel
administration) 1983, is
the chief executive of?cer
of Mutual Bank, based
in Muncie, Indiana.
Diana M. Lease, BS
business administration
and political science
1983, has been named
the assistant prosecuting
attorney for the Franklin
County Prosecutor,
Hilliard, Ohio. She is also
the second vice president
of the Columbus Rotary
and grants chair for Rotary District 6690.
Bryan Mills, BS accounting 1982, has been
named the president and chief executive of?cer for
Community Health Network. He has been the CEO
for a for-pro?t Community subsidiary, Visionary
Enterprises Inc., since 1987.
Christopher O’Bryhim,
BS management 1987, is
the chief human resources
of?cer with Veriana
Networks in Marion,
Indiana. Veriana is a
privately held technology-
oriented growth company
focused in the emerging
media sector. Clients
range from media and entertainment to ?nancial
risk management, education, government, and
health care.
Demetrios N. Skalkotos,
BS marketing and
information systems
1986 and MS information
and communication
sciences 1987, is senior
vice president of Global
Corporate Services
at the NASDAQ OMX
Group in New York. The
NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. is the world’s largest
exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange
technology, and public company services across
six continents, with more than 3,700 listed
companies.
1970-1979
Jim Brookhart, BS business administration 1973,
has been named the regional human resources
leader for Sisters of Mercy Health System
operations in southwest Missouri, Kansas, and
Arkansas. He continues to serve as the chief
human resources of?cer for Spring?eld, Missouri-
based St. John’s Health System, the top-rated
integrated health system in the United States.
Brookhart is a Spring?eld, Missouri, resident.
Charles Brown, BS
business administration
1971, is a Taco Bell and
KFC franchisee. He is a
partner of Southern Bells,
one of the Top 10 Taco
Bell franchisees in the
country. Southern Bells
has restaurants in Indiana,
Illinois, and Kentucky.
The company is based in Indianapolis.
Carl L. Chapman, BS accounting 1977, has
been elected to the Vectren Corporation board
of directors. Chapman is the president and chief
operating of?cer of Vectren.
Michael E. Earley, BS accounting 1978, has
been named president of Sherry Laboratories
environmental and microbiology divisions. Sherry
Laboratories is a network of eight laboratories
located in three states to provide analytical
testing services.
Earley also serves on the Miller College of
Business Alumni Board. In addition, he was
recently appointed to the advisory board of Fast
Forensics LLC, a mobile device forensics company.
J. Michael Keasling, BS ?nance 1977, is senior
vice president of leasing for CIT Rail, based in
Chicago. CIT Rail is a leading global commercial and
consumer ?nance company, providing clients with
?nancing and leasing products and advisory services.
Larry W. Metzing, BS
accounting 1970, is a
senior partner with Sunbelt
Indiana Business Resource
in Indianapolis, the state’s
largest business brokerage.
Over the years, Metzing
has been an active
alumnus, having served as
president of the Miller College of Business Alumni
Board, and continues his involvement as a member
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Council and as a 20-year member of the
Entrepreneurship Advisory Board. He has also
been recognized as the Beta Alpha Psi Accountant
of the Year, and in 2002, Metzing received the
Miller College of Business Award of Achievement.
He received the 2008 Award of Distinction
from Miller College and is currently the alumni
participation chair for the Ball State Bold:
Investing in the Future capital campaign.
Raymond J. Ohlson,
BS radio and television
1972, has been elected
as president of the
Central Indiana Chapter
of the Society of Financial
Service Professionals. He
is the founder and CEO of
the Ohlson Group Inc., a
national agency/marketing
organization headquartered in Indianapolis.
The society is a multidisciplinary organization
of ?nancial professionals that requires career
long education and adherence to high ethical
standards. Society members have earned, or
are working towards, one or more of the highly
respected professional credentials in the
?nancial services industry.
Ohlson also serves as the vice chairman for
the board of directors of the St. Vincent Carmel
(Indiana) Hospital, the advisory board for the
Center for Actuarial Science, Insurance, and Risk
Management at Ball State University. He was
the recipient of the 2006 Eye on Ethics Award
presented by National Ethics Bureau and is a life
member of the Million Dollar roundtable. Ohlson
served as president of two life insurance companies
and is an author and sought-after speaker.
Barry G. Rigby, BS marketing 1977, has been
named the director of sales for CynoSure, in
Asia Paci?c, Singapore. He manages subsidiary
companies in Japan, Korea, and China and is also
the managing director for the subsidiary company
in China. As part of his duties, Rigby manages
the distributors throughout the rest of Asia, India,
Australia, and New Zealand.
CynoSure is a manufacturer of aesthetic lasers
(used for hair removal, skin rejuvenations,
liposuction, pigmentation problems, vascular
problems, etc.). Based in the Boston area, it is
the leading aesthetic laser company in the world.
Rigby has worked for CynoSure for 10 years.
He is a Singapore resident.
C. Kenneth White, BS
accounting 1971, is a
principal with Cornerstone
Restructuring LLC. White
retired as the senior
managing director of
Ernst & Young Corporate
Finance LLC. As senior
managing director, he was
responsible for the New
York corporate ?nance practice and specialized
in restructuring advisory services.
1960-1969
Lynndel “Lynn” Edgington, BS business
administration and political science 1969, is
founder, president, and chair of Eagle Research
Associates, in Mission Viejo, California. Eagle
Research Associates Inc. is a public bene?t
nonpro?t corporation, focused on researching
and investigating Internet investment scams
and keeping the public informed.
Anthony Smith, BS accounting and business
administration 1968, is the director of the Capital
Markets Center for Ernst & Young in Brazil, serving
all of South America. He is based in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. Smith was named to the Miller College
of Business Hall of Fame in 2006.
1950-1959
Norman E. Beck, BS
business education 1958,
MA 1961, and PhD social
science education 1971,
has been the executive
director of the George and
Frances Ball Foundation
in Muncie since 2008.
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To help Hoosier children stay healthy, students
from Ball State have worked collaboratively on
a project involving Peyton Manning Children’s
Hospital at St. Vincent, Marsh Supermarkets,
and Strategic Marketing & Research Inc.
Project 18 is a statewide initiative that focuses
on school health education and community
outreach (See Ball State Business, Spring
2009). The project—named after its
spokesperson Indianapolis Colts Quarterback
Peyton Manning’s football jersey number—
provides Indiana elementary schools with an
18-week health and wellness curriculum
designed to address the major risk behaviors
for obesity in third-grade to ?fth-grade
students. It focuses on nutrition, physical
activity, and holistic health.
Ball State students worked with teammates
from diverse majors: marketing, advertising,
public relations, dietetics, nursing, physiology,
wellness, and health education and were led
by Jennifer Bott, associate professor
of management.
As members of the Building Better
Communities Fellows and Health Fellows
teams, the students worked to:
• create a public relations plan for
community outreach events held
last summer
• design materials for the summer events
• put together a comprehensive 18-week
school program
• produce a campaign for Marsh
Supermarkets that highlights nutritional
food choices children and families can
make as they shop
• prepare a marketing plan to integrate
the Marsh Pharmacy into the project.
Project 18 is being implemented in
schools this fall.
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Peyton Manning interacts with Christel House
Academy students at the June 15 launch of Project
18. Through the university’s Building Better
Communities initiative, Ball State students helped
with public relations and creating an 18-week
school program which began in August.
www.bsu.edu/bbc/project18
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KICK OFF
a campaign to improve
children’s health
ALUMNI AND
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honored
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Women in Leadership
A MAGAZINE OF MILLER COLLEGE
&
EXECUTIVES
ENTREPRENEURS
FALL 2009
VIEWPOINT
It has been both an honor and a privilege to
step into the position of dean of the highly
regarded Miller College of Business. With
your support, I look forward to raising our
pro?le even higher.
One of the key strengths of Miller College is
our alumni who represent us in every state
and around the world. Since June, I have
had the pleasure of meeting several of you,
and I very much appreciate the time you
have taken to share with me your pride,
your memories about your Ball State days,
and your hopes for the future of Miller
College. I plan to meet many more of you
in the coming months and invite you to
drop by my of?ce whenever
you are on campus.
Behind the success of
every great university are
engaged alumni. We are
very fortunate that this is
what we have here in you.
I have been impressed by
the enthusiastic support you
have shown for our various
fundraising projects and
the creation of scholarships
that help us continue to
attract extraordinary students
and provide them with a
high-quality education.
Because of your generosity,
you have opened doors and
enhanced opportunities
for a new generation of
Ball State students.
We are also thankful for the
other ways alumni have been
actively engaged—arranging
student internships at their
places of employment,
assisting with immersive
learning opportunities,
hiring recent graduates, participating
in our Dialogue Days, and serving on
advisory boards.
As you go through this issue of Ball State
Business, you will read stories about
individuals, programs, and accomplishments
we can all be proud of and celebrate. Meet
some of our remarkable women executives
and entrepreneurs (page 7). See how our
students, led by one of our faculty members,
are ?ghting childhood obesity along with
Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at St.
Vincent and Marsh, among other partners
(page 18).
We want you to help us improve future
issues of our magazine. To ensure that it
meets your needs, we are conducting a
survey athttp://business.iweb.bsu.edu/
magazine_survey.html. It will take only
a few minutes to complete. Thank you.
We always want to hear from you. Share
with us your accomplishments and current
information. Contact us at 765-285-8192
or [email protected].
I cannot thank you enough for your support.
I do want you to know that your support
makes Miller College an exceptional place
whose graduates are second to none.
Sincerely,
Rajib Sanyal
Dean
A Season of Transformations
Contact us at
www.bsu.edu/business/contactus
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Dean:
Rajib Sanyal
Associate Dean, Instruction:
Rod Davis
Associate Dean,
Research and Outreach:
Ray Montagno
Director of External Relations:
Tammy Estep
Miller College of Business
Phone: 765-285-8192
Fax: 765-285-5117
E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: www.bsu.edu/business
Photo Credits:
Michael Hickey and
Don Rogers/Ball State
University Photo Services
On the Cover:
Nicole Vauter, a ?nance and
economics major, looks forward
to representing students on the
Board of Trustees—and a career
of helping people prepare for
their future.
Alumni Honors 4
Ten accomplished business leaders are honored during the
Miller College of Business Alumni Awards Dinner.
COVER STORY
Executives & Entrepreneurs 7
Meet three alumnae and one student who are carving a path
with their innovative leadership skills.
• Nicole Vauter: visionary student, leader on campus
• Renae Conley: CEO of two utility companies helps
revitalize communities in the wake of hurricanes
• Karen Mangia: connects young women with high-tech
industry opportunities
• Suzette Brown Miller: advocate for increasing student
achievement through teacher development
Touchdown for Children’s Health 18
Project 18, a campaign to ?ght childhood obesity, kicks off.
Miller College News 2
Faculty Awards, Updates 6
Scholarship Award Winners, Donors 14
Connections 16
FEATURES
DEPARTMENTS
FALL 2009
BUSINESS
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New Prague Center in 2010, Page 2
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Entrepreneurship Ranked as 10th in Nation
U.S. News & World Report is touting the Miller College of Business
undergraduate program in entrepreneurship as 10th best in the nation.
The program features a ?nal pass-or-fail class that requires seniors
to put their degrees on the line when their business plans are analyzed
by a group of top business leaders just days before graduation.
The program has been consistently ranked in the top 10 by
U.S. News & World Report since 1999.
New Major in Sales Added
Miller College will offer a new major in sales in fall 2010.
Ball State is only one of a handful of institutions nationally—
and the only one in Indiana—to have such a major.
New Program in Information Systems
Security Management
This fall, Miller College launched a new program: the information
systems security management graduate certi?cate. The 15-hour
program is available through a combination of online and traditional
classes offered in the Greater Indianapolis area.
BRIEFS
MILLER COLLEGE NEWS
Prague, Czech Republic
Miller College to Launch Prague Center
The Miller College of Business is partnering with the university’s Rinker Center for International Programs to launch a new academic center in Prague
in the Czech Republic, starting in fall 2010.
Along the lines of our highly successful centers in Australia and London, the Prague Center will offer courses, study abroad, and immersive learning
opportunities to Ball State students in the fall semesters. Prague is symbolic of the dynamic changes taking place in Eastern Europe and, given its
central location, the center provides Ball State students an excellent option to broaden their global learning.
Courses, housing, transportation, and weekly cultural excursions are part of the inclusive fees at the semester-long Prague Center. Doug Naffziger,
associate professor of management, will serve as the resident director of the center for the ?rst semester. To learn more about this exciting initiative
and how you can support students going to Prague, contact Angie Cravens, coordinator of experiential and immersion learning programs, at
[email protected] or 765-285-2133 or go to www.bsu.edu/business/abroad.
We Need Your Feedback!
The Miller College of Business is conducting a survey to see how we
can better serve our alumni and friends. You can complete this survey
online athttp://business.iweb.bsu.edu/magazine_survey.html.
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Business Plan Competition
Gets New Home, New Name
The Entrepreneurship Center’s Enterprise 8,
formerly the Nascent 500 Business Plan
Competition, will be relocating to Worthen
Arena in the spring. The competition will
tie in with Hoosiers’ love for basketball.
The business plan competition celebrates
undergraduate entrepreneurship education
and Indiana’s business and historic heritage.
This will be the 14th business plan
competition hosted by Ball State.
Each year, semi?nalist teams are selected
based on submitted business plans and
are invited to Indiana for the competition.
The top team will present its plans
for a chance to win $15,000.
Insurance Program,
Students Recognized
Ball State’s insurance program achieved a
distinction by having the highest number of
students qualifying as university associate
certi?ed risk managers (UACRMs) in the
spring 2009 semester. The program ranks
third in the nation for total UACRMs.
The designation is an early certi?cation
program designed by the National Alliance for
Insurance Education & Research as a way to
help students gain a competitive edge, stronger
professional credibility, and to introduce them
to the internationally recognized certi?ed risk
manager professional designation.
The program was also listed as notable in the
September 2009 issue of Risk Management
magazine. The magazine stated: “Ball State’s
Center for Actuarial Science, Insurance, and
Risk Management plays an integral role
in supporting the program’s students and
faculty. The school offers undergraduate and
graduate degrees and boasts the most actuarial
credentialed full-time tenured faculty in the
country. This school’s program relies heavily
on real-world experience faculty, and students
recently completed a project on premium
taxation of insurers for the Indiana Economic
Development Council.”
Miller Scholar Program Completes Year One
Created by the bequest of Wally Miller, the Miller Scholars program completed its
?rst year. The program, which is designed to bring top high schools students to the
college, provides complete tuition remission, allowance for international study, a laptop
computer, specialized courses, and supplemental extracurricular programming.
This fall, the second group of Miller Scholars arrived on campus. They are:
SHRM Student Chapter
Earns Merit Award
The SHRM Student Chapter earned a Merit
Award from the Society for Human Resource
Management for the academic year 2008-2009.
The award recognizes professionalism of
chapter operations, professional development
of student members through mentorship
programs, attending conferences and guest
speaker presentations, and service to the
community. The chapter previously won a
Merit Award in 2007. About 20 Ball State
students are involved in SHRM.
TOP BUSINESS STUDENTS
INTRODUCING THIS YEAR’S
Miller Scholars Cailee Morris and Joseph Fazio
study in the Miller College lounge.
Two students in the program were awarded
Presidential Scholarships provided by the
American Institute of Chartered Property
Casualty Underwriters (CPCU). This scholarship
provides all materials and exam fees to pursue
the CPCU designation.
The recipients are Ball State seniors Kristen
Hanson and Bradley Robinson. Hanson is
majoring in risk management and insurance.
Robinson is pursuing a double major in risk
management and insurance and business
administration.
Chloe Barnes
Kevin Bergen
Laura Chappell
Joseph Fazio
Miranda King
MaryBeth Kowalinski
Rachel Kucan
Cailee Morris
Jessica Poeppelman
Morgan Walker
Christopher Wilkey
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ALUMNI AWARDS
Ten talented and dedicated alumni and friends were honored October 30 during the sixth annual
Alumni Awards Dinner. These men and women were recognized and celebrated for their successes.
Recognizing Outstanding
Alumni and Friends
HALL OF FAME
JOSEPH B. BLACK JR.
Dean and professor
emeritus, Ball State
University
Education: AA, Kemper
Military School; BS
1947, MBA 1956, and
DBA 1965
Indiana University
Current Position: Dean emeritus and
professor emeritus of ?nance at Ball State
Previous Employment: Teaching and
administrative positions at Indiana University,
Miami University, Wright State University
(dean), Kemper Military School (president),
and Ball State University (dean and acting
vice president of university relations)
Since 1947, he has retained an association
with his family’s business, the Black Lumber
Companies of Southern Indiana, recently
serving as a director and chairman of the
executive committee.
He proudly served in the infantry in World War II
and saw action in the Korean War as an artillery
of?cer. He continued to serve in the Army
Reserves and retired in 1973 as a colonel
in the Missouri National Guard.
DISTINGUISHED PARTNER AWARD
GEORGE E. BRANAM
Ball State
Entrepreneurship
Advisory Board,
Medical Advisory
Committee member for
the Human Performance
Laboratory
Current Position:
Laboratory director for
Pathologists Associated Medical Laboratories;
president of East Central Indiana Pathologists
Previous Employment: United States Air
Force major (1957 to 1966)
Education: BA chemistry and physiology,
Indiana University, Bloomington; MD, Indiana
University, Indianapolis, 1957; specialty
certi?cate in anatomic and clinical pathology,
Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco,
California, 1962; subspecialty certi?cate in
hematopathology, Ball Memorial Hospital,
Muncie, Indiana, 1971
Thoughts on Ball State: “Stories about my
participation in the Human Performance Lab
are numerous, but my favorite one involves the
testing of the then-world record holder of the
fastest marathon. It was in the heat of the
summer, and he warmed up, jumped on the
treadmill, and proceeded to run about a 4:15
mile. All of a sudden, the treadmill came to a
screeching halt because the fuses were burnt
out. It was so hot other people in the building
also had air-conditioning going, so it was too
much for the building.
So that Friday evening
everyone, including our
athlete, had a nice
dinner, capped with
a number of beers.”
AWARDS OF DISTINCTION
DONALD D.
DUMOULIN II
BS marketing, 1982,
Ball State University
Miller College of
Business Executive
Advisory Board chair
Current Position: Chief
executive of?cer,
King Systems
Previous Employment: President, Empi
Recovery Sciences through October 2008;
senior vice president of Roche Diagnostics
through December 2006; SmithKline Beecham
through December 1996; Procter and Gamble
through June 1992.
Thoughts on Ball State: “Ball State is the
source of most of my deepest friendships
through Sigma Chi fraternity and gave my
family the joy of seeing our son graduate from
the Miller College in 2008. The university has
given me pride of seeing the university grow
into a distinguished center for higher education
and the chance to work with outstanding Ball
State graduates in every job I have ever held.”
DAVID MCDANIEL
BS accounting and
?nance, 1981,
Ball State University
Accounting Advisory
Council, Ball State
Bold: Investing in
the Future capital
campaign, Indianapolis
subcommittee
Current Position: Partner of Ent & Imler CPA Group
Previous Employment: Staff accountant for
Kimmerling, Myers & Company (1981 to 1984)
Af?liations: American Institute of Certi?ed
Public Accountants; Indiana CPA Society;
Indiana CPA Society-Tax Resource Action
Committee (Indiana Legislature Liaison)
Thoughts on Ball State: “Ball State prepared
me to think, plan, and problem solve. I learned
skills on how to ?nd the right answer through
how to research problems and solutions—
not just trying to remember all the rules.”
Rod Davis, associate
dean for instruction,
(center) visits with alumni
Jackie and Mike Johnston
during the 2008 Alumni
Awards Dinner.
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AWARDS OF ACHIEVEMENT
SHELLEY A. HUG
MEADOR
BS accounting, 1993,
Ball State Accounting
Advisory Council
Current Position:
Partner at KPMG LLP
Previous Employment:
Senior tax manager
Redcats USA (2003
to 2006); corporate tax director at Deloitte &
Touche LLP (1993 to 2003)
Af?liations: Member of the American Institute
of Certi?ed Public Accountants and Indiana
CPA Society; the Children’s Museum of
Indianapolis Fund Council member
Thoughts on Ball State: “It was great to have
professors teach the courses all through my
400 level classes and to get to know them.
Also, the class sizes allowed me to get to know
my peers better as well. This has allowed
me to stay involved with recruiting for over
15 years, present to various business classes
and organizations such as Beta Alpha Psi/
Accounting Club, and my involvement in the
Ball State Accounting Advisory Council.”
TAMARA B. SAMPLE
MCKINNEY
BS ?nance, summa cum
laude, 1986
Current Position: CEO
and cofounder of The
Constant Group Inc.
Previous Employment:
Chief of strategy, business
operations, and analysis for LiveText Inc. (2000
to 2005); Bain & Company (1997 to 2000);
and various prior management and analyst
positions at NCR Corp. in the Of?ce of the U.S.
CFO, Corporate Treasury, Worldwide Logistics,
U.S. Controller’s Division, and U.S. Customer
Services (Field Engineering) Division
Af?liations: Association for Computing
Machinery Midwest Business Brokers &
Intermediaries; International Business Brokers
Association; National Association of Women
Business Owners; Turnaround Management
Association Midwest-U.S. and China
Association; Beta Gamma Sigma
Additional Education: MBA, Harvard
University, 1997
Thoughts on Ball State: “The most signi?cant
aspect of my Ball State experience was having
the latitude to blend curricular and cocurricular
activities ?exibly in a way that made sense for
me and that was both applied and pragmatic.
This approach provided a well-rounded
foundational learning experience that
served me well.”
BILL FRENCH
BS business
administration, 1981,
Miller College of
Business Executive
Advisory Board
Current Position: Senior
vice president at Colliers
Turley Martin Tucker
Previous Employment:
F.C. Tucker Company Commercial Real Estate
Services (1984 to 1998)
Af?liations: Colliers Turley Martin Tucker Board
of Directors; International Council of Shopping
Centers past cochair; Colliers International
Retail Steering Committee; past president of
Hamilton Southeastern Schools Foundation;
former vice president of Flanner House Inc.
Thoughts of Ball State: “My initial reason
for coming to Ball State was to become an
architect, but it didn’t work out for me.
Then I enrolled in the college of business.
If I was not going to design buildings,
I was going to sell them.”
ROB TYLER
BS ?nance, 1995,
Ball State Finance
Advisory Board
charter member
Current Position:
Financial advisor and
owner of Tyler Wealth
Management; adjunct
instructor for the
Department of Finance and Insurance,
Ball State University
Previous Employment: Financial advisor
for Wealth Strategies Inc. (1995 to 2001)
Af?liations: Retirement Planning at Ball State
Retirement Wellness Day presenter; Ball State
Christian Student Foundation board member
Thoughts on Ball State: “The most signi?cant
aspect of my Ball State experience was my
involvement in the business fraternity Delta
Sigma Pi. I was pledge class president,
which taught me Robert’s Rules of Order,
how to run meetings, organize projects,
and lead people. A local ?nancial planner,
David Stocker, spoke at a professional
speaker night and dinner afterward turned
into an internship, a full-time job, and seven
years of employment being mentored by
an excellent advisor. My favorite memories
also include lunch after class at the Flying
Tomato, $3.99 Papa John’s Pizza, attending
men’s basketball games at the new Worthen
Arena, and playing intramural sports.”
MATTHEW J. MOMPER
BS economics and
management, 1983,
Ball State University
Board of Trustees,
Ball State University
Foundation Board of
Directors, Northeast
Indiana Ball State
Alumni Chapter
Current Position: President of Momper
Insulation, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Additional Education: MBA Drake University, 1984
Af?liations: Indiana Builders Association Codes
Committee; Fort Wayne Zoological Society
Board of Directors
Thoughts on Ball State: “My entire Ball State
experience from the classroom, the fraternity,
working on the homecoming committee, and
involvement in other campus organizations has
prepared me extremely well for the real world.
That I am able to continue to serve on Ball State
boards has been most gratifying, ful?lling, and
a learning experience.”
JIM L. STANLEY
BS accounting, 1977,
and associate degree
economics, 1977
Current Position:
President of Duke
Energy Indiana
Previous Employment:
Vice president for ?eld
operations, Midwest
(2006); vice president for T&D Construction
and Maintenance (1998 to 2003); vice
president for T&D Projects (1996 to 1998);
all positions were with Public Service Indiana,
PSI Energy, Cinergy, which are all predecessor
companies to Duke Energy.
Af?liations: Indiana Legal Foundation Board
of Directors; Indiana Utility Shareholders
Association Board of Directors; YMCA of Greater
Indianapolis Board of Directors; Indiana Chamber
of Commerce Board of Directors; United Way
of Central Indiana Board of Directors; Special
Olympics Indiana Board of Directors
Thoughts on Ball State: “Like most graduates
I look back on my campus experience as a time
of growing accountability and exposure to new
things or, putting it in 1977 terms, I was on
my own and had to take care of myself for the
?rst time! I remember fondly that my senior
year at Ball State was the start of my lifetime
partnership with my wife. In fact, we like to say
that we were married and 36 hours later began
honeymooning on campus at the Scheidler
apartment complex. I would be remiss if I did
not mention that I bene?tted from and have
great memories of participating in collegiate
athletics by earning three letters in the
Cardinal baseball program.”
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Miller College of
Business 2009
Faculty Award
Recipients
OUTSTANDING SERVICE AWARD
Stan Keil
Associate Professor,
Economics
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AWARD
Shaheen Borna
Professor,
Marketing
OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARD
Stephen Avila
Associate Professor,
Insurance
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD
Rod Davis
Associate Dean
for Instruction
FACULTY UPDATES
University
Recognizes Miller
College Faculty
Ball State University
honored Jennifer Bott,
associate professor of
management, as the
2008-09 Outstanding
Junior Faculty Member
for being an exemplary
teacher and for her
initiatives with immersive
learning projects.
Sushil Sharma,
professor and chair
for the Department of
Information Systems and
Operations Management,
was recognized with the
2008-09 Outstanding
Faculty Award for his
proli?c scholarly output,
winner of several grants,
and high quality teaching. He is a leader in
cyber security research.
Avila Earns Top
Honors for Teaching
The director of Ball State University’s nationally
recognized professional selling program has
been honored as one of the nation’s top
educators.
Ramon Avila, director of
Ball State’s H.H. Gregg
Center for Professional
Selling and the George
and Frances Ball
distinguished professor
of marketing, has been
named a distinguished
sales educator by the
University Sales Center
Alliance. The award honors sales educators for
their consistent, long-term, and outstanding
contributions to the quality and advancement
of sales and sales management education at
the college and university level.
Documentary
Created for Aspiring
Entrepreneurs
An engaging, entertaining, and inspiring
documentary ?lm, Increasing the Odds:
Starting a Business, has been designed
by Cecil Bohanon, professor of economics,
and a team of students to help the aspiring
entrepreneur avoid crucial mistakes in
developing a business. The ?lm emphasizes
simple points that are essential to starting
a successful business.
This Virginia Ball Center
documentary pro?les
six businesses that use
time-tested and de?nitive
methods to increase their
odds. The companies
examined include Big
Sky Brewing of Missoula,
Montana; Air Robotics
LLC of Muncie, Indiana;
Blue Bottle Coffee Shop of Muncie, Indiana;
Vera Bradley Designs of Fort Wayne, Indiana;
Ball Corporation of Broom?eld, Colorado; and
Anheuser-Busch of St. Louis, Missouri.
Get a sneak peak of the documentary, an
immersive learning project from the Virginia
B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, Ball State
University, and the Innovation Connector
at www.bsu.edu/business/increasingodds.
The full ?lm will be released this fall.
New faculty and staff
Miller College of Business welcomes our new
faculty and staff for the 2009-2010 year:
• Rui “Ray” Chen, assistant professor
of information systems and operations
management
• Adlai Chester, instructor of accounting
• Maoyong Fan, assistant professor
of economics
• Susan P. Mantel, associate professor
of marketing
• Pankaj C. Patel, assistant professor
of management
• Lori Pence, secretary to the dean
• Michael D. Plante, assistant professor
of economics.
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Women in Leadership
omen are making strides in business leadership. Ball State University
continues to mold women leaders who are challenging how we use technology and
how we see the world around us, from the wake of hurricanes to inside classrooms.
In 2007, about 53 percent of the total professional positions in the private sector were
women, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Women made
up 28 percent of the total executive and senior level of?cial and managerial positions
and 39 percent of the total ?rst and midlevel of?cial and managerial positions.
These four stories exemplify advances women are making.
Karen Mangia (left) talks with fellow professionals during a video conference
at Cisco Systems. Mangia is the senior manager for the Partner Experience
team at Cisco in Carmel, Indiana.
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Taking Charge
It’s no secret, one encounter changed Nicole Vauter’s life.
Vauter met with representatives from Merrill Lynch and Raymond
James during her freshman year at Ball State to learn more about
their professions. One of the professionals was a certi?ed ?nancial
planner, taking in clients and speaking with them one-on-one while
managing their portfolios.
“He helped them with their ?nancial lives, their retirement planning, and
how to pay for education. With that one meeting, I had found what I
wanted to do with my life,” says Vauter.
Now for Vauter, it’s all about the
networking. Whether she does it in
person, through social networks, over
the phone, or through e-mails, she
gets involved so she can make
a difference.
“I want to become a business leader, an entrepreneur, a respected
colleague, an admired boss, a creative visionary, an enthusiastic role
model, a prestigious CEO, an esteemed educator, and a successful
woman,” Vauter says. “My ultimate goal is to create and own a
?nancial advising ?rm. To achieve this, I am willing and determined
to continue striving for excellence in my academic studies.”
Vauter of Hebron, Indiana, is the student representative to the Ball
State University Board of Trustees, the highest governing body of
the institution. A junior majoring in ?nance and economics, Vauter
stepped into her two-year position in the summer of 2009.
“I am really looking forward to going to as many events as
possible to network with students.” She was selected to be a
student trustee after an extensive application and interview
process that culminated in an appointment by Indiana
Governor Mitch Daniels.
“I’m kind of a nerd,” Vauter laughs. “I like ?nances. I have a color-coded planner. I love to be
involved. I have to be organized to do all these different things. This is who I am and what I love.”
While serving as a trustee, Vauter anticipates continuing on with many of her other extracurricular
activities, including as the Miller College Undergraduate Fellow.
“Nicole was our overwhelming choice for the Undergraduate Fellow position for 2009-10,” says
Gayle Hartleroad, director of student services for Miller College. “It is clear from the moment you meet
Nicole that she is a genuine, sincere, and caring person. She has an enthusiastic personality, which
makes her a wonderful ?t to regularly meet with prospective families and represent Miller College.”
Vauter was drawn to Ball State because of its well-regarded architecture program.
“I had anticipated doing business minors. After my ?rst year of classes at Miller College, I loved
it and made that my focus.”
She spent this summer contacting companies searching for a ?nancial planning-related internship
for next year. “It’s very competitive. I have many dreams and aspirations waiting to be ful?lled.
They direct my educational decisions,” she says. “Through my academic career, I have committed
myself to continuous learning and practice so that I will be well-prepared to take on any challenge
in my life.”
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In Her Spare Time
Nicole Vauter has immersed herself in as
many activities as possible during her time
at Ball State. While serving as a trustee
and undergraduate fellow, she is also a
member of the Student Alumni Relations
Team, the Advanced Professionalism
Certi?cate Program, and Alpha Kappa
Psi business fraternity. She is looking into
becoming involved in a Building Better
Communities Fellows project and studying
abroad next summer on the one of the two-
week ?eld studies Miller College offers.
In her spare time, she loves to play
cornhole, golf, and bowl. She is also
a photographer.
Nicole Vauter, student representative to the
Ball State University Board of Trustees, (left)
studies with friends outside the Museum of Art.
BALLSTATEBUSINESS 9
Taking Charge
Louisiana utilities are well-
acquainted with hurricanes and
the damage and destruction they
leave in their wake
But even the seasoned veterans at Entergy
Louisiana LLC and Entergy Gulf States
Louisiana LLC were stunned by the devastation
from hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
The mammoth storms ?ooded New Orleans
and southeast Louisiana, delivering tragedy
and misery to many of the utilities’ 1 million
customers.
“Our employees were amazing in their
response to the disaster,” says Renae Conley,
president and chief executive of?cer of
Entergy’s two utility companies. “Many of our
linemen, as well as other Entergy employees
responding to the storm, had lost their homes.
Still, they worked around the clock, many
performing heroic acts as they labored to
restore power to the region. The nature and
character of these employees were revealed as
they worked for others while they themselves
had lost everything.”
Conley, BS ’80 and MBA ’82, is responsible for
the companies’ electric distribution systems,
customer service, regulatory and government
affairs and economic development programs, as
well as the companies’ ?nancial performance.
After the storm, Conley worked with regulators
to put in place larger storm reserves and
innovative ?nancing alternatives to be prepared
for the next hurricane. So three years later,
when Gustav and Ike struck, leaving more
than 800,000 Entergy customers in Louisiana
without power, Conley’s companies were ready.
In Her Spare Time
Renae Conley has numerous interests
including running, reading, and traveling.
She serves on several boards related to
improving the life, economy, educational
opportunities and the future of Louisiana,
a state and people she has come to love
and to call home.
“Getting power restored as soon as possible
after disasters of these proportions is the key
to the economic recovery and the return of a
normal life for communities,” says Conley, a
Baton Rouge resident. “Our employees—as
well as thousands of workers from around the
country who came to help us—restored power
in record time.”
Renae Conley (left) appears on Louisiana Public
Broadcasting’s Louisiana: The State We’re In to
give an update on the restoration process following
Hurricane Gustav in September 2008. Conley is
the president and chief executive of?cer of two
utility companies in Louisiana.
Ball State President Jo Ann M. Gora
visits with Renae Conley during the
Alumni Awards Dinner. Conley was an
Award of Distinction recipient in 2007.
Steering
Through
the Storms
“The nature and character of these employees
were revealed as they worked for others while
they themselves had lost everything.”
— Renae Conley
President and chief executive of?cer of
Entergy Louisiana LLC & Entergy Gulf
States Louisiana LLC
10 BALLSTATEBUSINESS
Conley credits three Ball State professors
with giving her the foundation to lead the
companies: Krishna Mantripragada, ?nance
professor; Paul Parkison, retired chairman
and accounting professor; and James Hoban,
retired ?nance professor.
“They provided excellent real-life experiences
in the classroom, allowing us to understand
how to apply what we were learning to the
real-world situations we would encounter. And
they were truly interested in my success.” She
worked for Hoban as a graduate assistant and
credits his guidance in helping her re?ne and
understand her business interests.
When Conley graduated in 1980, the job
market was not promising. She continued at
Ball State and obtained a master of business
administration (MBA). She began working for a
utility company in the internal audit department
and spent the next half of her career in a
variety of accounting and ?nance positions
before moving into line responsibilities.
Conley joined Entergy in 1999 and was
named to her current position in 2000.
Conley has always been business-minded
and credits her father for helping her choose
accounting as a major. His advice was to seek
an accounting degree to get a strong knowledge
base of how businesses worked and made
money. “He said I could go any direction from
there,” Conley says.
And she has. Her companies have been
consistently recognized for their restoration
abilities after major storms. Entergy is the
only company to be honored every year
since the Edison Electric Institute Emergency
Response Awards were ?rst presented in
1998. It has have been presented with
four awards for its exemplary response
capabilities and nine awards for helping
other utilities repair their systems.
Conley continues to bring back her real-world
experiences to Ball State through her membership
on the Dean’s Executive Advisory Board.
“Interfacing with the students and seeing how
bright, creative, and resourceful they are is
rewarding. Today’s generation of kids is so
impressive and is going to make this world
a better place. I am convinced of that.”
Karen Mangia is reaching out to the next generation of information
technology (IT) professionals.
“What most attracted me to the IT ?eld was the pace—fast, dynamic, innovative,” says Mangia,
BS ’97, MS ’98, the senior manager for the Partner Experience team at Cisco Systems’ of?ce in
Carmel, Indiana. “Technology advances daily, and we are increasingly able to solve problems
using solutions and approaches that weren’t available in the past.”
Mangia is sharing her enthusiasm for technology with today’s female high school students. In
2006, she founded INPursuit to connect high school girls with mentors in the high-tech industry.
About 250 women have volunteered to engage in e-relationships with girls at two high schools
in Greater Indianapolis.
“It’s a great experience to give young women the chance to expand their view of options in life,”
she says. “Mentors make a difference in what you believe is possible.”
INPursuit is one example of Mangia’s strong support of networking. In addition to her Ball State
education, she says, her Ball State relationships have helped her career.
“Ball State prepared me well for my professional career and life in general,” says Mangia, an
Honors College alumna. “In addition to learning critical thinking and problem-solving skills,
I learned the importance of networking. My ?rst and most recent jobs resulted from Ball State-
based relationships.”
Human Connections
in a High Tech World
Renae Conley continued
In Her Spare Time
Karen Mangia has eclectic interests,
including cooking with local ingredients.
She earned an associate degree in
hospitality administration and culinary arts
from Ivy Tech just for fun!
A native of South Bend and resident of
Carmel, Indiana, Mangia also enjoys
traveling, reading, singing, and playing the
piano. She is a very active volunteer for the
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Karen Mangia in front of Bene?cence
on her graduation day.
“In addition to learning critical thinking and problem-solving
skills, I learned the importance of networking. My ?rst and
most recent jobs resulted from Ball State-based relationships.”
— Karen Mangia
Senior manager for the Partner Experience,
Cisco Systems, Carmel, Indiana
Mangia earned her bachelor’s degree in international
business and telecommunications as well as her
master’s degree in information and communication
sciences.
Mangia’s accomplishments have brought her
many awards, including being named to the 2008
Indiana Business Journal Top 40 Under 40 list
and a 2007 Graduate of the Last Decade (GOLD)
Award from the Ball State Alumni Association.
Mangia says networking with a fellow Ball
State graduate Randy Pond,’77, (see Ball State
Business, Spring 2009) was key to her career
development. Mangia met with Pond, Cisco’s
executive vice president of operations, at his San
Jose, California, of?ce. Pond helped her connect
with people in the division where she wanted
to work.
“When I chose to look for opportunities outside of
sales management at Cisco, I called Randy,” she
says. “I knew he was a fellow Miller College alum and thought he might have some ideas. He not only took the call; he generously spent almost an hour
with me in person!”
Mangia’s relationship with Ball State has continued long after graduation. She is a member of the Miller College of Business Alumni Board and the
Information Systems and Operations Management Advisory Board as well as the Center for Information and Communication Sciences’ (CICS) Industry
Fellows Board. She visits the classroom as a guest lecturer and gets to meet with several of her former professors. “I stay in touch because I had a great
experience at Ball State, and I want to enable that for others.”
In Her Spare Time
Suzette Scheib Brown Miller is an active volunteer, having served as president
of the Big Sister Foundation, cochair of Training Inc., and president of the
Indianapolis chapter of Alpha Phi Alumnae, among others. She received the
Pauline Selby Award from Big Sisters of Central Indiana.
She enjoys gol?ng, ballroom dancing, playing bridge, and reading and lives
in Indianapolis.
Suzette Scheib Brown Miller advertises
her passion on her back bumper. Her
license plate says EDUC8.
Miller, ’72, president of Brown Associates in Indianapolis,
has melded a love for teaching with entrepreneurship.
She works with school districts to develop and implement
plans to improve student achievement scores and provide
professional development to teachers.
“The most rewarding aspect of my consulting work is that
I still enjoy working through the ever-changing challenges
in education,” she says. “The expectations of principals
and teachers, the student population, and the research on
best practices in the classroom have dramatically changed
the educational landscape in the last 20 years.”
Merging
Education with
Entrepreneurship
Suzette Scheib Brown Miller (right) taught in public schools
before becoming an education consultant creating workshops
and training leadership teams for her company, Brown Associates
in Indianapolis. Karen Mangia (above) connects high school
girls with mentors in the high-tech industry through the
Partner Experience at Cisco Systems, Carmel, Indiana.
12 BALLSTATEBUSINESS
Carol Kettler, Title I manager for Fort Wayne Community Schools, has
worked closely with Miller. “Suzette is professional, knowledgeable, precise,
and accurate,” Kettler says. “She is a true advocate for increasing student
achievement through the school improvement process.”
Miller’s start in education came accidentally. When she enrolled at Ball State,
she intended to earn an associate degree but changed her mind. “I went to an
academic counselor, and he suggested I go into business education, since I had
already taken several business classes,” she says.
After teaching in public schools, followed by work in a leadership program at the
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Miller became an educational consultant.
With a business partner, she began designing workshops and training leadership
teams all over the country for the Modern Red Schoolhouse Institute. Her work
through the institute led her to open her own of?ce in Indianapolis.
Miller says Ball State prepared her well for her roles as both an educator and
a business professional, sometimes in ways she did not foresee. “I came to the
university with relatively no background knowledge in business. I was starting
from scratch, and the College of Business delivered courses that were broad in
range and speci?c in content, which I needed. At the time, it never occurred
to me that I would ever be developing a business plan, projecting budgets,
or paying taxes for my own business venture.”
At Ball State, Miller pledged with Alpha Phi sorority and took her ?rst
leadership role. At the time, she was dating a member of Sigma Chi,
and while a sophomore, she was chosen Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.
“While I was sweetheart, one of my responsibilities was to attend some of the
fraternity rush events,” she says. “David Letterman was one of the fraternity
brothers at the time, and he was usually the emcee at the rush events. He had
the ability to ?nd humor in nearly every situation. I thoroughly enjoyed watching
him work, even though sometimes as sweetheart, I was the object of his humor.”
Ball State is a big part of Miller’s life. She participates in the letter writing campaign to prospective
freshmen, Dialogue Days, and the Miller College Awards Dinner, and she served on the Miller
College of Business Alumni Board from 1996 until 2004—with two years as president. In 2005,
she was honored with an Award of Achievement.
“The most rewarding element of my involvement as an alumna with Ball State and Miller College
of Business is seeing the college and the university grow and having an opportunity to be a part
of that growth,” she says.
Suzette Scheib Brown Miller visits the Ball State
campus in the 1970s. She is standing in front of
Emens Auditorium. Miller is a 1972 graduate.
Suzette Miller continued
“I came to the university with relatively no background
knowledge in business. I was starting from scratch, and the
College of Business delivered courses that were broad in
range and speci?c in content, which I needed.”
— Suzette Scheib Brown Miller
President of Brown Associates,
Indianapolis
BALLSTATEBUSINESS 13
Above: Howard White, senior project manager/
technical engineer for AT&T, Monee, Illinois,
addresses a business class during Dialogue Days.
INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION.
When accomplished business leaders—such as corporate executives,
business professionals, and successful entrepreneurs—visit Ball State,
they enhance the Miller College of Business learning environment.
How you can give back
Ball State has more than 146,000
alumni who are making strides and
names for themselves as business
leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, health
care providers, scientists, designers,
artists, media professionals, and more.
You can give back to the Miller College
of Business. Give to the Dean’s Fund for
Excellence or to a speci?c program or
department that you’re most interested
in. Create a scholarship or endowment.
Help expand existing scholarship
funds. Partner with Miller College
on an immersive learning project.
For more information on how you can
help the Miller College of Business,
contact Beth Snyder, director of
development for Miller College of
Business, at 765-285-9098 or
[email protected].
www.bsu.edu/business
Dialogue Days
Dialogue Days, an initiative of the Miller College of Business Alumni Board, connects students
with successful alumni professionals to interact and share business experience and expertise.
The next Dialogue Days will be February 24-25, 2010. For more information contact Tammy
Estep, director of external relations, at [email protected] or 765-285-8311.
Executive in Residence
Students gain an unrivalled opportunity to interact with a successful business leader
and the chance to foster an intimate dialogue. The Executive in Residence program
allows seasoned leaders to speak in a number of classes and meet with students,
faculty, and local business groups.
Over the years, this program has brought to campus senior corporate executives, business
professionals, and successful entrepreneurs, from a variety of industries, large and small,
private and public.
In recent months, David Bego and Umit Taftali visited campus to speak with students.
Bego is president, owner, and CEO of Executive Management Services Inc. and the author
of The Devil at My Doorstep: Protecting Employee Rights, a book based on his employee
management experience. Taftali is a founding partner of Cesmig & Taftali, ’85, a private
equity investment partnership in London. In 2001, he joined Koc Holding in Istanbul,
Turkey, and founded the Suna Kirac (Koc) Family Of?ce, which he is managing.
Four executives in residence addressed our students during the 2008-2009 school year as
part of this Distinguished Speaker Series. Watch the interviews at www.bsu.edu/business
with Peter Campanella, ’67, former chief executive of?cer of World Kitchen; Carl George,
’71, CEO, Clifton Gunderson LLP; James Lintzenich, ’75, board of directors, Lumina
Foundation for Education; and Jeff Yapp, executive vice president for program
enterprises, MTV Networks’ Music and Logo Group.
David Bego (right),
president, owner,
and CEO of Executive
Management Services
Inc., pauses after
his Executive in
Residence talk with
students, to visit with
Ben Hancock, vice
president of university
advancement,
in October.
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SCHOLARSHIPS
Allardt Business Scholarship
Kenneth Barrett
Ball State University Indiana CPA
Society Scholarship
Jason Owens
Charles W. Battle Endowment
Fund Scholarship
Brandon Liechty
Autumn Sexton
Frank B. Bernard Scholarship
Nicole Vauter
Beta Gamma Sigma Scholarship
Anthony Dalesandro
Michael M. Bill Scholarship
by M-J Insurance Inc.
Kristen Hanson
BKD LLP Accounting Scholarship
in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Anthony Dalesandro
BKD LLP–Roger A. Bertram
Memorial Scholarship
Joseph Ealing
A.E. Boyce Scholarship
Erin Mulloy
Colonel William and Lucille Head Bright
Scholarship for Accounting
Sarah Dunham
Leslie Ferkinhoff
Erin Harbeson
Kimberly Shreves
Frank T. Bryan & William R. Bryan
Memorial Scholarship
Zachary Alexander
Anna Marie and Harold Bull Scholarship
Savannah Watson
Robert and Laura Bullock
Memorial Scholarship
Stephanie Wendel
G. Steven and Kelli Burrill Accounting
Scholarship in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Lucas Autry
Brandon Lucas
William A. and Carolyn A. Carter
Accounting Scholarship in honor
of Paul W. Parkison
Trake Carpenter
Kathryn Cohen
Kaleb Kelham
Adam Schaffer
Christopher Sindelar
Jacob Sowers
Central Indiana Chapter–CPCU Society
Scholarship in honor of Hugh McGowan
Joshua Spencer
C. Y. Cheng Award
Grif?n Corn
Spencer Schafer
Crowe Chizek and Company LLP
Outstanding Accounting Student Award
Joseph Kalule
William and Maudames Conner Scholarship
Tad Kilburn
Moonkee Kim
Nicole Vauter
Savannah Watson
CPCU Society Award
Kilea Gray
CTS Corporation Award
Meghan Polender
Duke Realty Corp. Freshman Merit
Matthew Jordan
Nicholas Pollastrini
Thomas Ertel/Arthur Anderson
Scholarship in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Allison Schweikert
Herschel and Adaline Eastman
Business Education Scholarship
Elizabeth Boyle
Herschel and Adaline Eastman
Scholarship in Distributive Education
Elizabeth Boyle
Abbey Johnson
Niel C. Ellerbrook Accounting
Scholarship in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Sarah Fox
Devin Scroggins
Ent and Imler Accounting Scholarship
in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Sara Sandifer
Dub and Nancy Fike Family Scholarship
Caroline Blue
John and Esther Findling
Class of 1933 Scholarship
Derek Wilson
First Merchants Bank Scholarship
Alisha Etzler
Thomas Masterson
Elsie H. Foreman Scholarship
Derek Wilson
John D. Gentis Scholarship
Zachary Enos
Carl George/Clifton Gunderson LLP
Accounting Scholarship in honor
of Paul W. Parkison
Tangkai Xie
N.G. Gilbert Business Scholarship
Joseph Ealing
Mearl and Lolita Guthrie Scholarship
Brandon Liechty
George E. Harris Memorial Scholarship
Scott Peterson
John P. and Lilly S. Harris Accounting
Scholarship in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Devin Scroggins
William R. Hole Accounting Scholarship
in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Chauncey Long
Holmes-McFadden Business Scholarships
Catherine Brake
Andrew Briles
Richard and Sandra Hutson College of
Business Scholarship
Joseph Macri
Independent Insurance Agents
of Central Indiana Inc. Scholarship
Alisha Etzler
Kristen Hanson
The Indiana Farmers Mutual
Insurance Scholarship
Steve South
Information Systems and
Technology Scholarship
Tyler Siefring
Rover Neill Jefferson Scholarship
Yaw Owusu-Akyaw
E. Virginia Johnson Business
Scholarship
Kara Gilbert
Megan Hughes
Jacob Sowers
Samantha Vail
Michael L. and Jacqueline J.
Johnston Family Scholarship
Jack Allgood
Cristina Curry
Zachary Enos
Rachael Hurd
Adam Page
Jessica Poeppelman
Tyler Sanders
Colleen Walton
Richard L. Kelly
Memorial Scholarship
Loretta Smith
Robert E. Kennett
Memorial Scholarship
Briana Yoder
Fred and Mildred Kitselman
Crapo Scholarship
Zachary Alexander
Stephen A. Knote
Memorial Scholarship
Tad Kilburn
Harold and Isabella Legg Memorial
Scholarship
Collin Hornbaker
Jim and Marybeth Lintzenich Accounting
Scholarship in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Sarah Fox
Joseph F. and Glenna L. Long
Accounting Scholarship
Thomas Masterson
Marketing Teacher Education Scholarship
Jonathon Maple
Scholarships Awarded for 2009-2010
“Being awarded this
scholarship is a tangible
result of my hard work
and serves as a great
motivator for future
performance.”
— Victor Morman
Mutual Federal Savings Bank
Charitable Foundation Inc.
Scholarship recipient
Bachelor’s degrees in ?nance
and piano performance, 2011
More than $316,000 in scholarships has been designated to bright and motivated Miller College of Business students for the 2009-2010 year.
We thank our alumni and friends for these generous gifts, which make the dream of a college education a reality for many students. Miller College
was able to provide $252,759 in business scholarships and $63,406 for Miller Scholars awards. These students will be recognized during the
annual Scholarships & Awards Brunch Award Program at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, December 12, in the Alumni Center.
BALLSTATEBUSINESS 15
Ermal W. Marsh Memorial Grant
Anthony Dalesandro
Thomas Masterson
Lawrence Ruiz
Autumn Sexton
Derek Wilson
Ermal W. Marsh Memorial Scholarship
Jake Budzielek
Terry Fields
Whitney Ruble
David Young
Estel V. and Mildred E. Marsh
Scholarship in Business Award
Joseph Fazio
Megan Hughes
Matthew Jordan
Cailee Morris
Terah Studer
Morgan Walker
Meek Memorial Business Scholarship
Jason Owens
Awards from the Estate of Wally Miller
Chloe Barnes
Kevin Bergen
Laura Chappell
Jeffrey Cline
Joseph Fazio
Hilary Fichter
Kelley Hux
Miranda King
MaryBeth Kowalinski
Rachel Kucan
Joseph Macri
Cailee Morris
Madison Moseman
Jessica Poeppelman
Kimberly Shreves
Nicholas Sizemore
Adam Smith
Morgan Walker
Christopher Wilkey
Marissa Wynn
Brooke Zollinger
Miller College of Business Alumni Award
Zachary Enos
Miller College of Business Award
Kelley Hux
Miller College of Business Merit
Endowment Scholarship
Carla Cotton
Joseph Fazio
Austin Hostetter
Megan Hughes
Matthew Jordan
Cailee Morris
Madison Moseman
Kyle O’Conner
Melanie Rapp
Adam Smith
Jamie Stone
Terah Studer
Colleen Walton
Grace Williams
Ronald A. Minichillo Entrepreneurship
Venture Development Fund
Graduation Award
Christopher Bendix
John Dahlgren
Max Kepler
Joel Luebcke
Dan McElroy
Jon Schwartz
Emily Stoll
Ashley Wiswell
Morrison-Galliher Award
Joshua Spencer
Mutual Federal Savings Bank Charitable
Foundation Inc. Scholarship
Wendy Carter
Victor Morman
Robert Henry and Clydia Alice Myers
Scholarship
Mohammad Abdel-Hay
NAIFA - East Central Indiana Fund Award
Alisha Etzler
Elliot and Estell Nelson and Family
Scholarship
Brandon Liechty
Ontario Corporation Business
Management Scholarship
Alexander Falevich
Steve H. Parker Accounting Scholarship
in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Tyler Siefring
Paul W. Parkison Accounting Scholarship
Erika Paul
Tyler Siefring
Stephanie Wendel
Jack Peckinpaugh Insurance Scholarship
Kristen Hanson
Pond Family Scholarship
Kathryn Cohen
Cristina Curry
Andrew Edwards
Ashley Green
Porter Family Foundation Business
Scholarship
Dustin Cressman
Luke Laskowski
Taylor Miller
Mr. and Mrs. D. Merideth Repp Scholarship
Caitlin Arthur
Josephine Saunders Scholarship
Savannah Watson
Ernestine R. Scott Scholarship
Shaun Wilson
Shultz Insurance Agency Scholarship
Kilea Gray
Anthony W. and Marla D. Smith/Ernst
and Young Accounting Scholarship in
honor of Paul W. Parkison
Trent Carnes
Gary Friend
Aaron Lindenschmidt
Anthony W. and Marla D. Smith
Merit Scholarship
Kevin Bergen
Skylar Chew
Grif?n Corn
Noelle Dubach
Andrew Edwards
Joseph Fazio
Ryan McDaniel
Jessica Poeppelman
Christopher Wilkey
Somerset CPAs P.C. Award
Kimberly Tiesch
Michael E. Stafford/Grange
Insurance Scholarship
Bradley Robinson
M.E. Studebaker Scholarship
Nicole Vauter
Mark Studebaker Undergraduate
Fellow Scholarship
Nicole Vauter
Charles V. Sursa Memorial Scholarship
Kenneth Barrett
George R. Terry Management Scholarship
Brandon Liechty
George R. Terry Scholarship
Jasmyn Burton
Michael K. Troyer Memorial Scholarship
Derek Wilson
Stanley L. Wadman Memorial
Scholarship Fund Award
Rebecca Lynd
James L. and Edward J. Wainscott
Accounting Scholarship
Lesley Ferkinhoff
Diana Rangel
Mark Wenclewicz Sr. Memorial Scholarship
Bradley Robinson
Edith and Carlos White Merit Scholarship
Steven Arlandson
Jordan Borders
Donald Friend
Kaleb Kelham
Ryan McDaniel
Nicholas Pollastrini
Kelly Sudhoff
Briana Yoder
Ken White/Ernst and Young Accounting
Scholarship in honor of Paul W. Parkison
Lilah Fisher
Thomas Masterson
Whitinger and Company LLC
Grant-In-Aid
Shelby Flynn
Krysta Hoover
Alexis Shonkwiler
Dane Wilson
The Numan A. Williams Insurance
Endowment Fund Award
Kilea Gray
Linda Wilson-Moser Memorial Scholarship
Grace Baker
Bethany Koester
Students socialize over brunch during the Scholarship & Awards Brunch Award
Program in 2008 for Miller College of Business scholarship recipients.
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1990-1999
Travis Chamberlain, BS accounting 1998, is
a member of the American Institute of Certi?ed
Public Accountants (AICPA) 12-person task
force formed to rewrite Practice Aid, Valuation
of Privately-Held-Company Equity Securities
Issued as Compensation. The AICPA is the
national, professional organization for all
certi?ed public accountants. Chamberlain is the
senior manager at Clifton Gunderson.
Richard Davisson, BS accounting 1998, is a
member of the American Institute of Certi?ed
Public Accountants (AICPA) 12-person task force
formed to rewrite Practice Aid, Valuation of
Privately-Held-Company Equity Securities
Issued as Compensation. The AICPA is the
national, professional organization for all
certi?ed public accountants. Davisson is
a partner at McGladrey & Pullen.
Robert Haecker, BS
management 1996, is
president of TRI Phase
Technologies, based in
Carmel, Indiana. TRI
Phase Technologies
is a high-end, custom
electronics company
known for innovative
design and installation.
Yun Kim, BS ?nance
1995, is the chief
?nancial of?cer of
King Systems based in
Noblesville, Indiana.
King Systems is a
custom manufacturer of
anesthesia and respiratory
care products.
Tricia Stanley, BS ?nance
1992 and MS health
science 2000, is the
executive director of the
Ball Memorial Hospital
Foundation Inc. in
Muncie, Indiana. The
BMH Foundation is a
resource to Ball Memorial
Hospital, enabling it to
expand with excellence its provision of patient
care, education, research, and community health.
1980-1989
David Heeter, BS ?nance
(?nancial institutions) and
management (personnel
administration) 1983, is
the chief executive of?cer
of Mutual Bank, based
in Muncie, Indiana.
Diana M. Lease, BS
business administration
and political science
1983, has been named
the assistant prosecuting
attorney for the Franklin
County Prosecutor,
Hilliard, Ohio. She is also
the second vice president
of the Columbus Rotary
and grants chair for Rotary District 6690.
Bryan Mills, BS accounting 1982, has been
named the president and chief executive of?cer for
Community Health Network. He has been the CEO
for a for-pro?t Community subsidiary, Visionary
Enterprises Inc., since 1987.
Christopher O’Bryhim,
BS management 1987, is
the chief human resources
of?cer with Veriana
Networks in Marion,
Indiana. Veriana is a
privately held technology-
oriented growth company
focused in the emerging
media sector. Clients
range from media and entertainment to ?nancial
risk management, education, government, and
health care.
Demetrios N. Skalkotos,
BS marketing and
information systems
1986 and MS information
and communication
sciences 1987, is senior
vice president of Global
Corporate Services
at the NASDAQ OMX
Group in New York. The
NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. is the world’s largest
exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange
technology, and public company services across
six continents, with more than 3,700 listed
companies.
1970-1979
Jim Brookhart, BS business administration 1973,
has been named the regional human resources
leader for Sisters of Mercy Health System
operations in southwest Missouri, Kansas, and
Arkansas. He continues to serve as the chief
human resources of?cer for Spring?eld, Missouri-
based St. John’s Health System, the top-rated
integrated health system in the United States.
Brookhart is a Spring?eld, Missouri, resident.
Charles Brown, BS
business administration
1971, is a Taco Bell and
KFC franchisee. He is a
partner of Southern Bells,
one of the Top 10 Taco
Bell franchisees in the
country. Southern Bells
has restaurants in Indiana,
Illinois, and Kentucky.
The company is based in Indianapolis.
Carl L. Chapman, BS accounting 1977, has
been elected to the Vectren Corporation board
of directors. Chapman is the president and chief
operating of?cer of Vectren.
Michael E. Earley, BS accounting 1978, has
been named president of Sherry Laboratories
environmental and microbiology divisions. Sherry
Laboratories is a network of eight laboratories
located in three states to provide analytical
testing services.
Earley also serves on the Miller College of
Business Alumni Board. In addition, he was
recently appointed to the advisory board of Fast
Forensics LLC, a mobile device forensics company.
J. Michael Keasling, BS ?nance 1977, is senior
vice president of leasing for CIT Rail, based in
Chicago. CIT Rail is a leading global commercial and
consumer ?nance company, providing clients with
?nancing and leasing products and advisory services.
Larry W. Metzing, BS
accounting 1970, is a
senior partner with Sunbelt
Indiana Business Resource
in Indianapolis, the state’s
largest business brokerage.
Over the years, Metzing
has been an active
alumnus, having served as
president of the Miller College of Business Alumni
Board, and continues his involvement as a member
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of both the Miller College Accounting Advisory
Council and as a 20-year member of the
Entrepreneurship Advisory Board. He has also
been recognized as the Beta Alpha Psi Accountant
of the Year, and in 2002, Metzing received the
Miller College of Business Award of Achievement.
He received the 2008 Award of Distinction
from Miller College and is currently the alumni
participation chair for the Ball State Bold:
Investing in the Future capital campaign.
Raymond J. Ohlson,
BS radio and television
1972, has been elected
as president of the
Central Indiana Chapter
of the Society of Financial
Service Professionals. He
is the founder and CEO of
the Ohlson Group Inc., a
national agency/marketing
organization headquartered in Indianapolis.
The society is a multidisciplinary organization
of ?nancial professionals that requires career
long education and adherence to high ethical
standards. Society members have earned, or
are working towards, one or more of the highly
respected professional credentials in the
?nancial services industry.
Ohlson also serves as the vice chairman for
the board of directors of the St. Vincent Carmel
(Indiana) Hospital, the advisory board for the
Center for Actuarial Science, Insurance, and Risk
Management at Ball State University. He was
the recipient of the 2006 Eye on Ethics Award
presented by National Ethics Bureau and is a life
member of the Million Dollar roundtable. Ohlson
served as president of two life insurance companies
and is an author and sought-after speaker.
Barry G. Rigby, BS marketing 1977, has been
named the director of sales for CynoSure, in
Asia Paci?c, Singapore. He manages subsidiary
companies in Japan, Korea, and China and is also
the managing director for the subsidiary company
in China. As part of his duties, Rigby manages
the distributors throughout the rest of Asia, India,
Australia, and New Zealand.
CynoSure is a manufacturer of aesthetic lasers
(used for hair removal, skin rejuvenations,
liposuction, pigmentation problems, vascular
problems, etc.). Based in the Boston area, it is
the leading aesthetic laser company in the world.
Rigby has worked for CynoSure for 10 years.
He is a Singapore resident.
C. Kenneth White, BS
accounting 1971, is a
principal with Cornerstone
Restructuring LLC. White
retired as the senior
managing director of
Ernst & Young Corporate
Finance LLC. As senior
managing director, he was
responsible for the New
York corporate ?nance practice and specialized
in restructuring advisory services.
1960-1969
Lynndel “Lynn” Edgington, BS business
administration and political science 1969, is
founder, president, and chair of Eagle Research
Associates, in Mission Viejo, California. Eagle
Research Associates Inc. is a public bene?t
nonpro?t corporation, focused on researching
and investigating Internet investment scams
and keeping the public informed.
Anthony Smith, BS accounting and business
administration 1968, is the director of the Capital
Markets Center for Ernst & Young in Brazil, serving
all of South America. He is based in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. Smith was named to the Miller College
of Business Hall of Fame in 2006.
1950-1959
Norman E. Beck, BS
business education 1958,
MA 1961, and PhD social
science education 1971,
has been the executive
director of the George and
Frances Ball Foundation
in Muncie since 2008.
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To help Hoosier children stay healthy, students
from Ball State have worked collaboratively on
a project involving Peyton Manning Children’s
Hospital at St. Vincent, Marsh Supermarkets,
and Strategic Marketing & Research Inc.
Project 18 is a statewide initiative that focuses
on school health education and community
outreach (See Ball State Business, Spring
2009). The project—named after its
spokesperson Indianapolis Colts Quarterback
Peyton Manning’s football jersey number—
provides Indiana elementary schools with an
18-week health and wellness curriculum
designed to address the major risk behaviors
for obesity in third-grade to ?fth-grade
students. It focuses on nutrition, physical
activity, and holistic health.
Ball State students worked with teammates
from diverse majors: marketing, advertising,
public relations, dietetics, nursing, physiology,
wellness, and health education and were led
by Jennifer Bott, associate professor
of management.
As members of the Building Better
Communities Fellows and Health Fellows
teams, the students worked to:
• create a public relations plan for
community outreach events held
last summer
• design materials for the summer events
• put together a comprehensive 18-week
school program
• produce a campaign for Marsh
Supermarkets that highlights nutritional
food choices children and families can
make as they shop
• prepare a marketing plan to integrate
the Marsh Pharmacy into the project.
Project 18 is being implemented in
schools this fall.
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Peyton Manning interacts with Christel House
Academy students at the June 15 launch of Project
18. Through the university’s Building Better
Communities initiative, Ball State students helped
with public relations and creating an 18-week
school program which began in August.
www.bsu.edu/bbc/project18
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